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Há 4 dias · No one knows where they will be in two decades or if these Mustangs will still be flying at 100 years old. That being said, warbird enthusiasts around the world owe a debt of gratitude to Dan Friedkin and The Horsemen Flight Team for capturing these brief moments when the three horsemen rode through the darkness of totality of what, for many, will be a last-in-a-lifetime cosmic event.
Há 3 dias · Commemorating Flying Fortress airmen in France. On Monday 28th June 1943 twenty one B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 351st Bombardment Group from Polebrook airfield in Northamptonshire took off to join other groups on a mission to bomb the submarine pens at St. Nazaire on the Western French coast. The formation headed inland before turning to ...
Há 2 dias · The B-17C was ordered by the Royal Air Force as the Fortress I. From 1942 to 1945, the B-17 equipped most of the USAAF bomb groups in the Eighth Air Force based in Britain. These groups carried out the long-range daylight strategic bombing campaign against Germany. The B-17G was by far the most numerous type to be flown operationally and ...
Há 3 dias · By Charles Scott Williams of the B-29/B-24 Squadron via CAF On The Fly. For the past two days, I had the pleasure of working on the B-29 Superfortress FIFI. My assigned task was to help install the carburetor on the #1 engine. This massive contraption for the R3350 engine weighs somewhere in the ballpark of 35 pounds and sits atop the aft ...
Há 5 dias · B-17 Flying Fortress Achievements The B-17 was the first Boeing military aircraft with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit. The B-17 was the first Boeing airplane with the distinctive tail for improved control and stability during high-altitude bombing.
Há 4 dias · WWII US Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress Airplane Print By Ken Bowers 9x12: $5.99. This beautiful print depicts a WWII US Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress airplane created by the talented artist Ken Bowers. It measures 9x12 inches and would make a great addition to any collection of aviation or military aircraft memorabilia.
Há 5 dias · The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle - a B-17 bomber so nicknamed for the girlfriend of its stern and stoic captain, Dennis Dearborn - will soon start their twenty-fifth mission, having completed their previous twenty-four successfully with nary an incident, while fewer and fewer other planes are coming back from their missions at all.
