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The B-17 evolved through numerous design advances [4] [5] but from its inception, the USAAC (from 1941 the United States Army Air Forces, USAAF) promoted the aircraft as a strategic weapon. It was a relatively fast, high-flying, long-range bomber with heavy defensive armament at the expense of bomb load.
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.
A B-17 nicknamed "High Life" of the 100th Bomb Group that crash landed in Switzerland, where the plane and its crew were interned. The Americans listed 55 of their bombers with 552 crewmen as missing after the August 17 double-target mission. About half of those became prisoners of war of the Germans and 20 were interned in Switzerland. Sixty ...
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 ...
Believed to be either 0.3–340 kt [ 2 ] or 0.3–400 kt [ 3 ] in the weapon's various mods. The B61 nuclear bomb is the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War. It is a low-to-intermediate yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon featuring a two-stage radiation implosion ...
Until the B-52 became operational, the B-36 was the only means of delivering the first generation Mark 17 hydrogen bomb, [29] 25 ft (7.6 m) long, 5 ft (1.5 m) in diameter, and weighing 42,000 lb (19,000 kg), the heaviest and bulkiest American aerial nuclear bomb. The Mark 17 took up the aircraft's two aft bomb bays, while the forward bay could ...
The B-1B has a maximum speed of Mach 1.25 at higher altitudes. [40] [63] The B-1B's maximum takeoff weight was increased to 477,000 pounds (216,000 kg) from the B-1A's 395,000 pounds (179,000 kg). [40] [64] The weight increase was to allow for takeoff with a full internal fuel load and for external weapons to be carried.
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 ...