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B-17 Flying Fortress buzzes above Charleston area
The Liberty Bell B-17 Flying Fortress recently landed at the Charleston International Airport to give airplane buffs and World War II veterans tours and offered half-hour flights for $395 per person.
This is one of a dozen B-17 still able to fly of the more than 12,700 built during the war. The Liberty Bell was built in 1945 and recently restored at a cost of $3.5 million.
The B-17 could fly roughly 1,850 miles each mission with a crew of 10. It had 13 machine guns that could fire more than 13 rounds per second.
Photographs taken by Business Journal executive publisher Bill Settlemyer and advertising coordinator Bennett Parks.
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