Texas Raiders
The Commemorative Air Force’s Gulf Coast Wing "Texas Raiders" group maintains and flies the former PB-1W / B-17G Flying Fortress named "Texas Raiders". She is hangared at Tomball Jet Center which is located at David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (KDWH) in Tomball, Texas.
Read more about Texas Raiders: History of The B-17, The PB-1W Is Born, From PB-1W To Aerial Surveying, N7227C Joins The Confederate Air Force, Current Status, See Also, External Links
Famous quotes containing the words texas and/or raiders:
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“This is our fate: eight hundred years’ disaster,
crazily tangled like the Book of Kells:
the dream’s distortion and the land’s division,
the midnight raiders and the prison cells.”
—John Hewitt (b. 1907)