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Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress of the 19th Bombardment Group USAAF, summer 1942. The B-17 began operations in World War II with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1941, and in the Southwest Pacific with the U.S. Army. During World War II, the B-17 equipped 32 overseas combat groups, inventory peaking in August 1944 at 4,574 USAAF aircraft worldwide. [80]
Length Span MTOW Capacity Notes Ilya Muromets: 1913 airliner/bomber: 85+ 19.13 yards (17.49 meters) 32.58 yards (29.79 meters) 4.527 tons: Pax: 16: First multi-engine aircraft in serial production, Russky Vityaz development Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI: 1916 Bomber: 56: 24.168 yards (22.099 meters) 46.15 yards (42.20 meters) 11.613 tons: Largest WWI ...
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 ...
The B-17G Flying Fortress was equipped with 11 to 13 machine guns and capable of a 9,600-pound bomb load. The 36-seat plane in Dallas was owned by American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum in ...
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. The following is an extensive catalogue of the variants and specific unique elements of each variant and/or design stage of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II.
In the summer of 1943 the Eighth expanded in size to 16 groups of B-17s and 4 of B-24s, and by the following June would grow to 39 groups. The table of organization and equipment for heavy bombardment groups was increased from 35 to 62 planes with a huge influx of new bombers beginning in the autumn of 1943, and the use of composite groups was ...
In 1935, Boeing then designed a four-engine airliner using components from the Boeing Model 299 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber as the Model 307. It combined the wings, tail, rudder, undercarriage, and engines from the B-17 with a new, much larger pressurized circular cross-section fuselage with a maximum diameter of 138 in (3.5 m).
The Pink Lady is the nickname of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber, serial number 44-8846, which flew several missions for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) over Nazi Germany near the end of World War II. The plane is now on static display in Cerny, Essonne, France.