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Bomber Aircraft: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was quickly retired from its primary role as a bomber, and most of the fleet was ...
On April 13, 1945, the final Boeing-built B-17 Flying Fortress was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Forces, marking the end of ...
The B-17’s cockpit ages well ... 5 over the limits of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress I’m trying to land for the first time. My instructor, Bob Davis, utters a few choice words, but we ...
Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t finished in time to join World ...