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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 ...
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 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.
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.
The B-17B (299M) was the first production model of the B-17 and was essentially a B-17A with a slightly larger rudder, larger flaps, a redesigned nose and 1,200 hp (890 kW) R-1820-51 engines. The small, globe-like, machine gun turret used in the Y1B-17's upper nose blister was replaced with a .30 in (7.62 mm) machine gun, its barrel run through ...
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Martin B-10 & related heavy bomber: 1932 retired 1949: 342: Curtiss SBC Helldiver dive bomber: 1935 retired 1943: 257: Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber: 1935 retired 1944: 130: Northrop A-17 attack bomber: 1935 retired 1944: 411: Northrop BT dive bomber: 1935 retired 1941: 55: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber: 1935 [1] 1938 [1 ...
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