# Can anyone Identify the planes flying in formation with this B-17 Flying Fortress? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 3, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-planes-flying-in-formation-with-this-b-17-flying-fortress/792672 "2017-08-03T04:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-planes-flying-in-formation-with-this-b-17-flying-fortress/792672/21 "2017-08-04T22:01:50Z")
Fifteen years ago, I gave my dad a ride in “Aluminum Overcast” as a present for his 73rd birthday. (He had been a big fan of the Flying Fortress since he was a kid.) Unfortunately, I can’t recall, or trace down in my records, how much I paid. Expensive enough that I didn’t go with him! I got to climb inside after the flight and take some pictures, including one of him in the cockpit. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-planes-flying-in-formation-with-this-b-17-flying-fortress/792672/22 "2017-08-04T22:30:31Z")
More than a million rivets in a rather loose formation was known as a [C-124 Globermaster](https://goo.gl/images/a5aTkS). Any of you young pups ever fly, work on, side door jump, ride in one of these? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-planes-flying-in-formation-with-this-b-17-flying-fortress/792672.md?page=1)