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Bomber Aircraft: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Vintage Aviation News

The final product was an aircraft with an armament that consisted of five 30-caliber machine guns with a payload of up to 4,800 pounds, these being mounted on two racks in the bomb behind the cockpit. The designing was carried out by a team of engineers led by E. Gifford Emery and Edward Cutis Wells. meters Length 22.7 meters Height 5.8

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. As for outright performance, the Gweduck “will hold altitude on one engine.”

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Unusual Queens: Top 10 coolest special mission Boeing 747s

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The pilot would bank the 747 away from the rocket, and after five seconds, it would ignite and take the payload the rest of the distance into orbit. Its service ceiling of 45,100 ft also made it an appealing choice for the mission. There, it would pitch up by about 30 degrees, and the rocket would be released.

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