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Boeing 307 Stratoliner. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.
The B-17E (299O) was an extensive redesign of the previous B-17D. The most obvious change was the larger, completely new vertical stabilizer, originally developed for the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, and the addition of a tail gunner. Experience had shown the Flying Fortress was vulnerable to attack from behind.
576th Bomb Squadron B ... while the command's main raids were being conducted by its Boeing B-17 ... Also known as ABRES B-3; Design capacity: 1xSM-65D; Test launches ...
The B-17G Flying Fortress was equipped with 11 to 13 machine guns and capable of a 9,600-pound bomb load. ... A B-17 with 13 people aboard crashed at a 2019 air show in Connecticut, killing seven ...
Contents. B-17 Flying Fortress units of the United States Army Air Forces. The Collings Foundation B-17G N93012 restored to represent B-17G Nine-O-Nine of the 323rd Bomb Squadron, one of two longest-serving B-17's of the 91st BG; the original "Nine-O-Nine" was scrapped after World War II in Kingman, Arizona. This is a list of United States Army ...
Castor (radar & TV sensors, radio control) Aphrodite was the World War II code name of a United States Army Air Forces operation to use worn out Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated PB4Y bombers as radio controlled flying bombs against bunkers and other hardened or reinforced enemy facilities. A parallel project by the United States ...
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II. Forty-five planes survive in complete form, [1][a] including 38 in the United States with many preserved in museum displays. The number of operational B-17s has dwindled over time ...
Crash site of B-17. Early on the morning of May 16, 1946, a U.S. Army B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed into White Hill (a.k.a. "White's Hill") near Fairfax, California. Two men were killed and six seriously injured. [1] There were reports that the B-17 was carrying nuclear weapons materials for the Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini ...