History: The Impact Of US B-17 Flying Fortresses In The WWII European Air War
the B-29 Superfortress), the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was to bombers what the North American P-51D Mustang was to fighters ...
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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Bomber That Won World War II
While the Flying Fortress was eventually replaced by its B-29 successor, the bomber remains one of the most revered of its kind to this day. During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the ...
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Learning to Fly the Fortress
The tower at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, clears me to land in a crosswind gusting to 40 knots, 5 over the limits of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress I’m trying to land for the first time. My instructor ...