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Our View: Dems should take it slow in Salem ... Prospect-area cow death likely not a wolf kill ... New cable fence stops out-of-control SUV ... Our View: Dems should take it slow in Salem ... Prospect-area cow death likely not a wolf kill ... 'We had to get out of there before it blew up' Ashland's Leo Zupan recalls being shot down by German fighters in 1944 as he goes aloft in a vintage B-17 on Monday Leo Zupan smiled as the B-17 bomber Aluminum Overcast taxied up at the Medford airport early Monday afternoon. By paul fattig MailTribune.com By paul fattig Posted May. 13, 2008 @ 12:01 am By paul fattig Posted May. 13, 2008 @ 12:01 am Want to ride in one? Here's how --> A World War II era B-17 bomber will be available for public flights and ground tours at the Medford airport today and Wednesday. Residents can take flights on the B-17 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p... » Read more X Want to ride in one? Here's how A World War II era B-17 bomber will be available for public flights and ground tours at the Medford airport today and Wednesday. Residents can take flights on the B-17 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day. A minimum of six people are required for each 45-minute flight. The cost is $385 for Experimental Aircraft Association members and $425 for nonmembers. Call 920-371-2246 to book a flight. Ground tours will be available from 2 through 5 p.m. on both days. The cost is $5 per person, $15 per family, $3 per person for high school groups of 10 or more and $1 per person for grade school groups of 10 or more. Children under 8 are free when accompanied by a paying adult. Ground tours are free to all active military personnel and veterans. For more information, see www.b17.org » Social News Leo Zupan smiled as the B-17 bomber Aluminum Overcast taxied up at the Medford airport early Monday afternoon. "That's a beautiful airplane," said Zupan, an Ashland resident. Zupan, who turns 90 in July, knows a little about B-17s: He knows the accelerating feeling of throttling forward the four 1,200-horsepower engines, of rocketing into the wild blue yonder and the reassuring rumble of engines cruising along at 170 mph. He also knows the cold fear of bailing out of a bullet-riddled B-17 falling out of the sky over enemy territory. But Zupan had no fears on Monday, some 64 years since he last flew in a B-17. He was airborne as an honored guest in the Aluminum Overcast, a circa-1945 restored B-17 bomber owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association, based in Oshkosh, Wis. Each year, the nonprofit group sends the B-17 and its crew on a special mission across the nation to honor veterans like Zupan. Known as a Flying Fortress, the Aluminum Overcast is one of about a dozen B-17s still flying. The aircraft was built too late to be used in WWII. Not Zupan. He was working in a department store in Ashland when the United States entered the war in December of 1941. "I wrote to my draft board and asked them if I could enlist," he said. "I knew they needed pilots. And I wanted to be one." He became 2nd Lt. Zupan of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He had some two dozen missions under his belt when he was the co-pilot in a B-17 nicknamed Snafuperman flying out of a base in Italy on Aug. 29, 1944. It was one of 395 bombers and 294 fighters bound for a target in an industrial area of Moravia. Ten minutes shy of their target, his aircraft was shot down by German fighters over what was then Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. "Both the No. 1 and No. 4 engines were on fire," he said. "I could see the ribs on the wings. We had to get out of there before it blew up." At about 18,000 feet, he leaped out through the bomb bay. "I had never jumped before," he said. "I remember I was on my back looking up. It was real serene. "I watched the ground once in a while and when I got to about 3,500 feet I opened the chute," he added. Despite a friendly welcome by the Czechs, the airmen were handed over to German Gestapo agents who interrogated Zupan's crew. When he tried to resist a beating, they broke his nose. He survived to be a taken to Germany where he was held until Allied forces freed him and his fellow POWs the following spring. It was only fitting that a B-17 would carry him to freedom in France. During Monday's flight, Zupan sat behind the co-pilot during takeoff, then stood during the flight to watch the instruments. The Aluminum Overcast with its olive drab interior is a spitting image of the old warhorses he once flew, Zupan said. "I sure remember that narrow catwalk," he said of the narrow walkway over the bomb bay. "We used to be able to come in through the nose," he said. "We would throw our bags in, then reach up and swing up into the cockpit from the ground. "Can't do that now," he added. As for the Aluminum Overcast crew, he figures they know how the handle the old warhorse. "That was a very smooth landing," he said, adding, "I've had a lot rougher flights." Reach reporter Paul Fattig at 776-4496 or e-mail him at [email protected]. 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