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The Bally Bomber B-17 is an original design by Jack Bally, EAA 348338. [2] The aircraft is a four-engined, retractable conventional landing gear equipped, low wing monoplane. The fuselage is all riveted aluminum in construction with hexagonal bulkheads. The drawings were modified from a one ninth scale set of radio-controlled aircraft plans ...
At the end of World War II, the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator were obsolete as strategic bombers, having been replaced by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. B-24 production ended after the surrender of Germany in May 1945, B-17 production ended a month earlier, in April. Many of these new aircraft were simply not needed due to the ...
Project-17B class: Operators Indian Navy: Preceded by: Nilgiri class: Cost ₹ 70,000 crore (US$8.4 billion) (Total cost) around ₹ 9,994 crore (US$1.2 billion) per ship [1] Planned: 7-8: General characteristics; Type: Stealth guided-missile frigate: Displacement: 6,700–8,000 t (6,600–7,900 long tons) Armament >48 VLS cells [1] which might ...
Yankee Lady is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress owned by a private collector, previously owned by the Yankee Air Museum.Originally delivered to the U.S military in 1945, the plane did not see combat action; it was used by the United States Coast Guard for over a decade.
As for the B-17's name, Zeamer's aircrew referred to 41-2666 only as "666" or "the plane". On 14 June 1943, two days before their final mission together, Zeamer officially named their B-17 Lucy. He had the name painted in script under the three windows on the port side nose, mostly between and underneath the small forward window and larger gun ...
[6] [7] Work continued on the B-17 at the south end until 2010 when a purpose built hangar was completed and the B-17 project as well as the newly acquired aircraft were moved into it. [8] In August 2011, the museum recovered the remains, primarily the empennage, of a B-17G wreckage from Talkeetna, Alaska for use in the restoration. [ 9 ]
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The B-17 Liberty Belle about to take off from the 2005 Lumberton Celebration of Flight. Sold as scrap on 25 June 1947, Pratt & Whitney subsequently bought B-17G USAAF serial 44-85734 (shown with a T34 turboprop mounted in its nose) and operated it from 1947 to 1967 as a testbed aircraft. [1]