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Connie Hertz says she likes trying "crazy things." She's been in helicopters, on balloon rides and on a 90-mph motorcycle ride.
So I was thinking: What was I going to do for my 85th birthday?"
Her answer: To ride in B-17 bomber.
Hertz, who turned 85 last month, was treated to the ride Wednesday at Willow Run Airport.
Her friends purchased the $400, 30-minute excursion in the Yankee Air Museum's vintage bomber as a birthday gift.
Before takeoff, they presented her with a leather bomber jacket. Representatives of the U.S. Navy gave her dog tags and other keepsakes.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050819/ap_on_fe_st/bomber_birthday_1
So I was thinking: What was I going to do for my 85th birthday?"
Her answer: To ride in B-17 bomber.
Hertz, who turned 85 last month, was treated to the ride Wednesday at Willow Run Airport.
Her friends purchased the $400, 30-minute excursion in the Yankee Air Museum's vintage bomber as a birthday gift.
Before takeoff, they presented her with a leather bomber jacket. Representatives of the U.S. Navy gave her dog tags and other keepsakes.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050819/ap_on_fe_st/bomber_birthday_1
