More: Tower at Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania to open by 9/11 anniversary Rozendaal said that he and his fellow Commemorative Air Force members do what they do because they're determined "to keep the stories that these airplanes have to tell alive." Explaining the importance of that mission, he pointed out that, in 1933, the "airliner of the day" was the Ford Trimotor, an unpressurized three-engine craft that was made of corrugated tin and flew at a top speed of 90 miles per hour. The Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour, which organizers say offers "powerful, hands-on history lessons to audiences across North America," will open to the public in Johnstown on Wednesday.
You just suggest it goes in this direction or that direction. You put in the control inputs, but you don't force it to go. "Imagine driving an 18-wheeler with about nine flats," Travis said, chuckling, when asked what it's like to fly a B-29. Watch Video: Watch: Memorial Stadium plane crash - the cop who was hit
WATCH: Memorial Stadium plane crash - the cop who was hit. Rozendaal and pilot Tom Travis, of Monroe, Louisiana, both of whom have been members of the Commemorative Air Force for more than 30 years, are two members of the B-29's six-member crew, which also includes a flight engineer and three "scanners," who are tasked with monitoring the airplane's condition and keeping an eye out for engine fires. As soon as it broke, we took off, and it just got better all the way." The 45-minute flight from Reading to Johnstown was "lovely," said copilot Doug Rozendaal, of Clear Lake, Iowa: "We waited for the weather to improve.
"Fifi," one of only two B-29 Superfortresses in the world that still fly, touched down on Monday afternoon at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, as did two other World War II-era aircraft belonging to the Commemorative Air Force, a Texas-based nonprofit dedicated to preserving and showing historical aircraft at airshows. The deep, ominous rumble of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber's four engines, a sound that echoed throughout the Pacific Ocean during World War II, was heard again on Monday in the skies above Richland Township.
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