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Repaint Request for Trekkies, Roddenberry's B-17

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pilottj

Blues is Life
Hey folks,
As some of you may know, Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry, was in the Air Corps during the war. I did a little bit of research and found some info on his squadron.

Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia.

Roddenberry developed an interest in aeronautical engineering and subsequently obtained a pilot's license. In 1941 he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, which in the same year became the United States Army Air Force. He flew combat missions in the Pacific Theatre with the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bombardment Wing of the Thirteenth Air Force and on 2 August 1943, Roddenberry was piloting a B-17E Flying Fortress nicknamed the "Yankee Doodle", from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides when mechanical failure caused it to crash on take-off. In total he flew eighty-nine missions for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal; he also received the World War II Victory Medal before
leaving the Air Force in 1945.

Here is some info on 'Yankee Doodle'
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-2463.html

I know there are no FSX B-17E's but perhaps it could be transplanted to A2A's great B-17G. I am looking foward to their Accusim update for it.

Anyway, I know any repaint attempt would be much appreciated by trekkies on this forum such as myself :)


Cheers
TJ
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forgive me if I am wrong - but didn't he go on to fly for a commercial airline?

and wasn't it because of his first hand experience with 'foo fighters' that he got started thinking about space travel as a part of natural human evolution?

seems I read that somewhere...
 
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