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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
Funny, The dude who played Rockford has a B-25 as a private plane in a movie, it looked sweet!
John Travolta has a BIG Jet that he flies. Wow. I wish I could do that! 
Actually I have been aboard both of those plains and they are lot smaller than a 737. |
There was a war-bird show at my local county airport this week:
B-24,B-25, and a B-17.
Just how 10 men, with heavy over garments and flack jackets moved around in a B-17 is way beyond me.
A B-52 is huge. So big that several years ago when the Air Museum at King County Airport (A/K/A Boeing Field) had a show with the last one ever build, the air traffic controllers at Sea-Tac Airport would not permit it to do a fly by within their controlled space.
So they just over flew the U.S.S. Missouri as it was pulling into Puget Sound.
However buying one just does not seem right at all.
Update:
Links with information and size of planes:
B-52:
http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=83
B-24:
http://www.warbirdalley.com/b24.htm
B-25:
http://www.warbirdalley.com/b25.htm
B-17
http://www.warbirdalley.com/b17.htm
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=391
737:
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=93
747:
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=97
B-17 vs. B-52:
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircr...son_detail.asp