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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
The year is 1960 and the place is Dallas. The mournful wind that sweeps across the flat plains of north central Texas whistles through the
During World War II, the automotive company Studebaker built nearly 68,000 R-1820 engines from one of its production plants in South Bend, Indiana. By the
As the spring and summer flying and airshow season gets underway, it’s nice to see all three of the actively flying B-17s in the U.S.
Myth #1: There was a prototype XB-17 Boeing built a prototype four-engine bomber to meet Army specification 98-201 dated July 18, 1934, and Boeing designated
(This post is edited and updated from a post that originally appeared in May 2022) The ABC Television series 12 O’Clock High was produced and
This is a short story about another obscure B-17. It is short because little is known about why and how this airplane, B-17G s/n 42-102642,
Anyone who has spent time looking at the post-war trail left by the B-17 Flying Fortress knows about Pyote Army Air Field. The remote west
(The following was written by Training Captain Peter Kuypers with the B-17 Preservation Group that operates B-17G 44-85784, otherwise and better known as the “Sally
Unfortunately, it can’t really be called a surviving B-17 because there is so little left of it. Nonetheless, the trail of VB-17G 44-83316 through post-war
Most of the surplus B-17s that survived the scrapping period after the war have diverse tales to tell, and it is often surprising to see
In the course of doing research on civil and post-war B-17s, I occasionally come across material that fills in some holes in the history of
The first phase of a project to restore B-17G 44-83690 has been completed by the Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, Georgia. The museum held
The restoration of B-17G 44-85813, otherwise known as Champaign Lady, continues to make solid progress at Urbana, Ohio. The decades-long effort by the Champaign Air
The sole remaining early “shark fin” B-17, B-17D 40-3097, is in the initial stages of a restoration or, probably better put, reassembly and preservation at
The restoration crew at Marengo, Illinois, working to restore B-17E 41-2595 (otherwise known as Desert Rat) continues to make steady, if slow, progress on the
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