The Liberty Foundations 2012 Salute to Veterans tour gave media flights on Monday July 23, 2012 on the Memphis Belle, a restored WWII B-17 bomber at Landmark Aviation in Syracuse. The plane will be available for public flights and tours on Sunday July 29, 2012. The flying fortress bomber will fly at about two thousand feet during the media and public flights. They flew at between 25 and 35-thousand feet during combat missions. The four-propeller plane has a wingspan of 103 feet. This plane was built in 1945 and used to carry cargo and troops but flew a combat mission. It was then restored in the 1980s to reflect the original Memphis Belle.

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Liberty Foundations WWII B-17 Bomber Flight