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Building a B-17E
Building a B-17E
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Bendix Turret from the inside -- details on the siting station.
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Bosesighting
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Chris Brame
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42-30146 had an interesting career ahead - ended up flying for the other side:
Question for the experts: What's causing the streak of light arcing up and over the plane?Dave Osborne wrote:42-30146 Del Cheyenne 17/4/43; Smoky Hill 25/4/43; Presque Is 15/5/43; Ass 333BS/94BG [TS-A] Earls Colne 24/5/43 CHEROKEE; Rougham 13/6/43; MIA Warnemunde 29/7/43 w/Ned Palmer, cp-Gene Snyder, n-Frank Pellegrino, b-Art Cooper, ettg-Christos Bassios, ro-George Hamling, btg-Vernon Rathburn, wg-Damon Cottingham, wg-Olin Brown, tg-Bill Clark (10POW); flak hit, f/l Avedoerre, six miles S of Copenhagen, Den. MACR 202. DOWN and GO!. (Repaired at Kastrup by Luftwaffe and used as A3+CE 230146, but eventually c/t/o at Echterdingen, Ger. 9/2/45.)
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Minor point but, as has been discussed before, it was a Sperry lower turret, first the periscope sited "remote" and, later, the ball turret No Bendix turrets in the B-17 until the chin turret.
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So is this a Sperry of a Bendix ??
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Sperry.
Look at the December 2008 B-17 News for a good discussion on this.
http://www.aerovintage.com/b17news8.htm
Look at the December 2008 B-17 News for a good discussion on this.
http://www.aerovintage.com/b17news8.htm
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It would be neat to know what the serial number of the B-17E being built was. Those early "E" forts had such a history...