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Emblem of the 92d Bombardment Group Senior Pilots pose in front of Boeing B-17F-80-BO, AAF Serial No.42-29996, (PY-R) "Flag Ship" from the 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group This aircraft was lost on 16 November 1943 while returning from Norway commanded by 2Lt Joseph F Thornton. Of the crew; 9 POWs, one evaded capture.
A B-17F of the U.S. Army Air Force's 1st Radar Calibration Detachment, [80] name undocumented, flying from Bangor, Maine, to Fort Dix, New Jersey, crashed on the Kittatinny Mountains near Millbrook, New Jersey. The accident was due to a radio failure and navigational problems, as well as heavy icing due to the wintry conditions.
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Classified as a heavy bombardment group, the 91st operated Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft and was known unofficially as "The Ragged Irregulars" or as "Wray's Ragged Irregulars", after the commander who took the group to England. [1]
[1] The aircraft's gross weight was some 4,000 lb (1,800 kg) greater than a fully armed B-17. An indication of the burden this placed on the YB-40 is that while the B-17F on which it was based was rated to climb to 20,000 ft (6,100 m) in 25 minutes, the YB-40 was rated at 48 minutes.
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 ...
94221 Ensembl ENSG00000047932 ENSMUSG00000019861 UniProt Q9HD26 Q8BH60 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_020399 NM_001017408 NM_001199272 NM_053187 RefSeq (protein) NP_001017408 NP_065132 NP_001186201 NP_444417 Location (UCSC) Chr 6: 117.56 – 117.6 Mb Chr 10: 52.21 – 52.26 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Golgi-associated PDZ and coiled-coil motif-containing protein is a protein ...
The Kimura HK-1 was a glider built in Japan in 1939 to investigate the possibilities of tailless aircraft. It was a single-seat design with an open cockpit, swept wings, and a single tail fin. The HK-1 made a total of 169 test flights between 15 December 1939 and 7 March 1940, towed aloft behind a car.
The first Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber operated by German forces, in KG 200 markings. It crash-landed near Melun, France, on December 12, 1942, and repaired by Luftwaffe ground staff. [citation needed] It gained a USAAF nickname, "Wulfe Hound" On 1 December 1943, a lone B-24 joined a bomber formation from the 44th Bomb Group.