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Around 30 parachutists arrived at Ortner Airport in Wakeman, Ohio, on August 27, 1967, to skydive together from a privately owned North American B-25 Mitchell bomber (registration N3443G [8]). [9] After a previous paid performance at an air show, the bomber's owner, Bob Karns, had offered a free jump out of gratitude to the skydiving community ...
CWT, at 16,000 feet altitude, made a pursuit curve mock attack from the high port side of Boeing B-17G-35-DL Flying Fortress, 42-107159, [87] terminating his attack from about 250 to 300 yards away from the bomber, but "mushed" into the B-17 while breaking away, hitting the port wing near the number one (port outer) engine. "Both planes burst ...
Donini was killed April 6, 1945, when the B-17 bomber, known as the Flying Fortress, in which he was a ball turret gunner collided with an escorting fighter plane, a P-51 Mustang, while returning ...
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]
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A World War II-era B-17 bomber carrying 13 people crashed and burned at the Hartford airport in an aborted takeoff attempt Wednesday.
The fifth, Boeing B-17G-5-BO Flying Fortress 42-31188 ("Dead Man's Hand") of the 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group [46] (piloted by Lt. Robert F. Glazener on its 111th combat mission), was the last 8 AF heavy bomber lost to Axis fighters in the European theatre. Seven of its eight crew members escaped from the plane.
Boeing B-17G-15-VE Flying Fortress, 42-97493 of the 2nd Ferrying Group out of Dover Army Airfield, crashes 2 miles SW of Gander shortly after takeoff, 29 December 1943. Witness, a F/O Fisher, reporter that the Boeing bomber banked very sharply to the left, more in the style of a single-engined aircraft than a four-engined bomber.