Boeing B-17-Flying Fortress - Warbird Tech Vol. 7

WarbirdTech #7

by Frederick A. Johnsen

Its full potential still not explored, the model 299 crashed at Wright Field on 30 October 1935 on takeoff, with the control locks inadvertently engaged. Much as the crash of the new XP-38 Lightning several years later did not kill that promising program, so did the Flying Fortress outlive the demise of the prototype.

104 pages, Paperback

First published April 22, 1997