B-17 Flying Fortress tour

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B-17 Flying Fortress tour at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum
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To hand crank one landing gear wheel down. 1000 cranks from fully retracted to full extended and locked.

andyd
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That’s crazy altitude for piston engines

danielwillets
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My grandfather Perry Beach was a tail gunner in WW2 in the B17. Shot down over Europe and spent 4 years in a German prison camp.

estebanplaya
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I wondered about the belly gunner in his pod, if the juice was severed losing hydraulic power to move the ball turret wasn't there an axe on board that could be used to smash open the top and get then man out? If you were landing could you not use the cement runway and land on the grass instead ( if a field was nearby). If I were the pilot dealing with the problem, I'm going to bust through hell to save that man. Dump out all the weapons and ammo as well as anything not bolted down, Circle the field commanding the crew to jump out. At that point, I'm going to shut down the inboard engines after I've burned off as much fuel as possible, take a very long final and slowly descend until I can fully idle the remaining two engines hoping to touch down on a softer surface hoping the turret can withstand the landing. Knowing the probable horror that the gunner will experience if I land the conventional way unto a concrete runway is motivation enough to pull all the stops.

bobbypaluga
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Balls of steel .Dispite their terrible losses they still kept going .A shitty job but they were tough enough .

crafter
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Lol we say thanks to the airmen but the airmen thank there planes and that German aren’t got at shooting flak

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