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Steve...any chance how I can get permission to use that photo? I'm writing a book on the history of aviation physiology during WWII and I plan to have a chapter or major part of a chapter devoted to the Nemesis of Aeroembolism and other ships used as research platforms by the physiologists during th...

A 35 page report on B-17E 41-2407 can be downloaded at http://dspace.lrri.org:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1184 The report was prepared by Randy Lovelace, Dir. Aero Med Lab, March 1944, and has lots of interior photographs--Jay LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE High Altitude Flight Test of Flye...

"How it Feels to Fly Seven Miles High, by Girl Reporter In Stratosphere".
Here's an old newspaper article written by a reporter who took a flight on the Nemesis of Aeroembolism in 1944 (The Bee, Danville, VA, March 2, 1944).--Jay

Steve, neat photo of her mothballed! Did you get that from Boeing? It's interesting that she's sitting next to Bockscar (background), the B-29 that dropped the 2nd and final atomic bomb to end the war. Today, this B-29 resides in full splendor at the Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio. The 2 color p...

Yes, this is a B-17E serial number 41-2407. She was known as "B-17E No. 13" from 1941-1943 at the Boeing Flight Test Laboratory because she was the 13th B-17E purchased by the USAAF in 1941. B-17E No. 13 was one of three B-17's used for pioneering high altitude flight to and above 35,000 feet by Boe...