[rescue] Boats?

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

Great B17 book... Half a wing and a prayer (or something like that). I have
a copy in storage. Stories of individual sorties and how it went down in
real life. Proof for future generations that the 17 can fly with 50% of its
airfoils missing (empty anyways, bombloads change the equation).

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Eric Dittman [mailto:dittman at dittman.net]
~ Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:57 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [rescue] Boats?
~ 
~ 
~ > >  > What about the B-25J... something close to two DOZEN 
~ forward firing
~ > >>  50Cal machine guns.  Those things are fun for when you 
~ want bullet
~ > >>  holes.
~ > >
~ > >Have you seen pictures of the B-17 escort gunship they built?
~ > 
~ > This I have to see.  URL?
~ > 
~ > >Also, there was a late-model B-17 prototype with liquid-cooled
~ > >Allisons instead of the air-cooled Wright Cyclones.  That didn't
~ > >work out as the Allisons were needed for the P-38s.
~ > 
~ > I heard about this one... never seen pics though.
~ 
~ I saw these in a great book on the B-17.  The book is, I think,
~ named "Flying Fortress".  I loaned my copy to someone and it
~ disappeared.  :-(
~ -- 
~ Eric Dittman
~ dittman at dittman.net
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