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Moses03
December 8th, 2008, 13:12
Interesting-

http://www.twaseniorsclub.org/TWAB17/TWAB17.html

lefty
December 8th, 2008, 22:27
They might have kept the ball turret as a sort of viewing gallery for the brave :costumes:

lefty
December 8th, 2008, 22:33
I didn't realise as many as 68 B-17's ended up in Sweden by dint of not making it home to England - some of those were converted into airliners too.

Thrifty Swedes, eh ?

Willy
December 10th, 2008, 22:40
I still think Boeing could have given the Douglas DC-4 some competition if they'd have re-started production of the B-17s sister the 307 Stratoliner at the end of WWII.

Still interesting about the TWA B-17 though. At least it had some parts commonality with their Stratoliners.