Aero Vintage Books

Hello gentlemen. Looking for any info, pictures, maunuals, etc for the early air-to-surface radar SCR-521 installations in B-17's. Specifically looking for illustrations/pics of the antennas. These are the ones that had a transmitting antenna on the nose, 1 homing antenna under each wing, and a dou...

Now I'm cornfuzzled even more. Sperry drawing numbers, but everything I've ever seen describes it as a Bendix turret. I just downloaded the AFHRA Historical Study " Development of gun turrets in the AAF ", and it says that 'because demand was greater than production capacity at the time, seperate tu...

First off, THANKS Bill/DryMartini for the info on the changes between block numbers in an earlier post of mine. For some reason when I tried to add a reply on that thread to say thanks, it wouldn't post ? I'm currently looking for any info on the Bendix remote-sighted lower gun turret used on the 1s...

Hello folks. Wondering if anybody knows a book, CD, online reference, etc... that details the differences / modifications made between different block numbers of the B-17 ? Specifically, I am trying to help a fellow determine the changes made between the 5-block and 10-block Lockheed-Vega built B-17...

Hello folks. A couple of us have been doing research finding pics of planes for people who's relatives flew during WWII. While going through a lot of nose-art pics, we have run across some markings we cannot identify. On the left side nose of a VERY FEW B-17G's, just aft and somewhat on the level of...