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How to Fly The B-17
Flight Operations
Part Two
This is a 29 minute World War Two US Military movie on the Flight Operations of the famous B-17 Bomber. The DVD covers the pre flight, in flight and landing of the B-17.
Filmed as a technical aid to help young pilots learn to fly the B-17, this movie is also a time machine. The movie takes the viewer back to a time in our nations history when we were in a deadly war with several enemies with no clear certainty we would win. At the beginning of the second World war the USA had only the fifth largest Army. Our military was well behind most of our enemies. This video shows student pilots stepping up to the challenge to learn an extremely complicated weapon of war, one that would take them in harms way.
The viewer learns a lot about the B-17,and the country that made them, and the men that learned to fly them.
I enjoyed watching this movie a lot, I think you will too.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the then-United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry outperformed both competitors and more than met the Air Corps' expectations. Although Boeing lost the contract because the prototype crashed, the Air Corps was so impressed with Boeing's design that they ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation. From its introduction in 1938, the B-17 Flying Fortress evolved through numerous design advances.
The B-17 was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets. The United States Eighth Air Force based at Thorpe Abbotts airfield in England and the Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy complemented the RAF Bomber Command's nighttime area bombing in Operation Pointblank to help secure air superiority over the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for Operation Overlord. The B-17 also participated to a lesser extent in the War in the Pacific where it conducted raids against Japanese shipping and airfields.
From its pre-war inception, the USAAC (later USAAF) touted the aircraft as a strategic weapon; it was a potent, high-flying, long-range bomber that was able to defend itself, and to return home despite extensive battle damage. It quickly took on mythic proportions, and widely circulated stories and photos of B-17s surviving battle damage increased its iconic status. With a service ceiling greater than any of its Allied contemporaries, the B-17 established itself as an effective weapons system, dropping more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II. Of the 1.5 million metric tons of bombs dropped on Germany by U.S. aircraft, 640,000 tons were dropped from B-17s.
There are a total of 53 surviving airframes worldwide:
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