It came at us out of the clouds, a steel clad ghost bristling with guns. It was the Liberty Belle, a restored World War II B-17 Flying Fortress. I made this image through the windshield of a moving car, getting off only two shots before it vanished again. This was one of them, photographic proof that I was not imagining things. It had taken off from Lawrence Municipal Airport in North Andover, and I caught it in the skies over Ipswich. My fast shutter speed of 1/2000th of second has eerily stopped all four propellers, yet the plane still flies – adding a ghostly dimension. I later converted the image to black and white to give it a period look.