Books and Information for the Aviation Enthusiast
Aviation author and photographer Nick Veronico visited the Palm Spring Air Museum very recently and provided this update on B-17G 44-83546 (N3703G), otherwise known as
The B-17G well known as “Yankee Lady” has been in the aviation news quite a bit in the summer of 2024. This is primarily due
(Most of this post was originally published in the Aero Vintage November 2015 B-17 News page. It’s a good story and I thought it worth
Being designed in the mid-1930s, the B-17 enjoyed, at least initially, some of the rapid improvements in engine technology that occurred during the decade that
So this is the story of another obscure civil B-17, one was the only specifically modified to transport live tropical fish. Apart from that unusual
From 1950 through the early 1980s, Bolivia came to operate 26 B-17s as cargo transports, mostly ‘meat-haulers’ that transported freshly slaughtered beef from sea-level airstrips
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