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  1. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    I wonder if that was Mossadeq? He was the democratically elected head-of-state in Iran that Mr. Dulles and his CIA (in their infinite wisdom) had "removed". We've been paying the price ever since. :roll: Cool that his "limo" though was an old B-17.
  2. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    They were the lifeline for the Sixth Army of General Paulus at Stalingrad. But if I remember right, Göring made up a fiction for Hitler about the number of support aircraft the Luftwaffe had to provision Paulus. There were horrendous stories of Sixth Army soldiers storming the JU-52's on...
  3. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    The only thing buzzing around here is flies. Might be time for the annual bath....
  4. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    That almost is alone a work of art. Just one clean machine.
  5. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    He just LOVED flying. It's kind of hard not to like people like that: - Daedalus - Da Vinci - Orville and Wilbur - Lindbergh - Hannah Reitsch ALL of them just wanted to fly, to get up there and fly. Kind of cool!
  6. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    Oh, man, take a pic when you get there. Then WE can say we saw it!
  7. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    We got the Howard Hughes Medical Institute headquartered here in the DC area (in Bethesda MD). The endowment of the Institute is in the billions. They claim to be doing general medical research, but the story I heard back when I was chasing their business here in the area was different. We...
  8. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    What a story. God bless your dad.
  9. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    :3dAngus: I would have guessed it was a large figure, but I don't think I would have pegged it THAT large. No kidding. Wow.
  10. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    When you think of what it must cost to keep those monsters flying, the $450 a flight is totally reasonable (almost cheap even). The fuel, the maintenance, the hangar fees, parts (and on and on). It must cost a pretty penny to keep that bird airworthy. Both the Ohio and the Canada ships look...
  11. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    A list of the variants. Interesting how the Navy got their knickers in a knot about the Army intruding on "their" territory with the YB variant, and lodging a complaint with the War Office. Also interesting how Curtis Lemay was the navigator for that "Navy" mission. The YB variant is the...
  12. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    The B-17 program was almost a wash-out. "Check" this out: http://www.anecdote.com/2013/12/story-checklist/
  13. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    These vids are a little on the long side, and this is the third of a three-part series (10 +/- minutes here). But it's pretty astounding the level of detail going into the model making. I haven't even checked it all out myself yet, but a fast forward to 18:35 +/- will give you the summary...
  14. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    Tracer, you are a miracle worker. That explains it completely! Thanks, Brother. :jumpin:
  15. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    Thanks, Tracer. So he'd drop down from his station and fire it, what, from a seated position? He's definitely not standing in there. Do you know?
  16. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    About that nose gun: - Did the bombardier fire that weapon remotely? - Or was there a gunner behind it firing prone or something? Any idea?
  17. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    Thanks for your great pics. That shot of the Norden Bombsight is a special treat. [thumbzup]
  18. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    YouTube pitched me this vid today. It's not too long. I forget how big the wing surface was on the B-17's (check out about 2:00 - 2:30). That's a lot of surface area (and the tail wings, too). I'm noticing also how some in this squadron are painted OD overall, and some are unfinished...
  19. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    And a brief summary (under 3 minutes), of the bomber and crew: https://youtu.be/sxbyfliO7Cc
  20. Another Ahab

    B-17 Flying Fortress

    We had (2) B-17's fly low over the D.C. area a couple years back. I was on Memorial Bridge at the time (behind the Lincoln Memorial in the vid background). The vid doesn't capture at all the thrill of hearing those (4) 1,200 HP engines overhead. It was killer! https://youtu.be/38s8IZVJRpQ
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