Originally Posted by
mudboy
Two years ago my best friend and I convinced our wives that we NEEDED to spend $400 to ride on a B-17F. It was awesome, and the experience of a lifetime:
That was money well spent. For my 50th, my wife and in-laws got me an hour in the front seat of an SNJ. Got to handle the stick, but no touchy rudder pedals, please. Funny thing is my father-in-law had more hours in the SNJ than my pilot. He taught at Pensacola during the war, later qualed on the R4D (that's C-47 to you AF types) and went to the Philippines right at the end of the war. Some 20 years later, he was again flying a DC-3 shuttling Gen. Sverdrup around the country.