Need Help Please ASAP!

Blue Yonder · 07-01-2008, 11:30 AM

Thank you to all. Including your help and several Air Power, Aviation History, and a B-17 Flying Fortress book I have found all the research I need to complete this model. I'm not very good at model building but I will post pictures on here to show everyone how it is coming along. Thanks all!!!

ccheese · 07-01-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Blue Yonder

You wouldn't happen to have any pictures of your plane would you? Also, not to sound like a little child, but what was it like flying in a B-17?
-Pete

Pete:

Didn't see this til today. We had two PB-1's at NAS NorVa in 1951. One was
configured for VIP transport, the other for Search & Rescue, with a big
lifeboat tucked under the belly. I flew both as a radioman. I found them to
be very noisy, and almost always bumpy. We had no turrets or weapons,
and usually flew with a crew of five... six on the VIP unit. Pilot, Co-pilot,
Radioman, Navigator and Crew Chief. The VIP unit flew with a steward,
was heated, and very plush.

Charles

Wayne Little · 07-01-2008, 10:56 PM

Looking forward to your build Blue Yonder...

Wurger · 07-03-2008, 05:55 AM

Like me.

Micdrow · 07-03-2008, 07:23 AM

Though late on seeing this thread I thought Wurger and a few others may like this picture to study. I beleive this is a B-17B though if I remember right.

520516MA · 07-05-2008, 09:12 PM

Great photos .AND HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK ?it could be helpful:

B-17: Combat Missions: Fighters, Flak, and Forts: First-hand Accounts of Mighty 8th Operations Over Germany (Hardcover)
byMartin W. Bowman(Author)

Price: ￡19.99
Product details

Hardcover
Publisher:Greenhill Books (1 Aug 2007)
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-10:185367754X
ISBN-13:978-1-85367-754-0

contents

Foreword and Introduction
PART 1
history and debelopment
preparing for a mission
patt 2
the pilot and copilot
the navigator
the radio operator
the bombardier
the engineer/top turret gunner
the waist gunners
the ball-turret gunner
the tail gunner

part 3:
rest and recreaton

gollssary
biblography
picture credits and acknowledgments

Wayne Little · 07-06-2008, 04:26 AM

Ah, that looks interesting! haven't seen that book before?

Blue Yonder · 07-06-2008, 11:22 PM

Whoa!!! Great interior shots in that book. I will have to look for a copy to use. Unfortunately, due to the size of the model, and some new dexterity problems the detail that I had originally thought to strive for will be next to impossible. I will update this with pictures as soon as I am able to. Keep checking back for the progress reports. As to the picture before that post of an in flight B-17, I think that it is a Model 299. It has the "blister turrets" in the radio position, and the forward turret is a bubble as was seen in the early 299 varient. Good shot though.

520516MA · 07-07-2008, 12:18 AM

you're welcome .if you want some help more picture.you can leave you e-mail address here,and i'll send more picture to you mail .thx

Njaco · 07-07-2008, 06:14 AM

Is that camo pic a PB-1 with target tug markings?

Blue Yonder · 07-07-2008, 10:57 AM

You know the camo did confuse me a little, I too am curious about it. My email is littlecontro@yahoo.com. Or my college one is pcontari@mail.keuka.edu. Thanks again!

Wurger · 07-07-2008, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Micdrow

Though late on seeing this thread I thought Wurger and a few others may like this picture to study. I beleive this is a B-17B though if I remember right.

Hi,

I was sure I had seen the kind of camo of B-17 bomber before but I cannot recall myself where.But you guys are lucky men and I have recalled it myself.
The bomber is one of the Y1B-17s ( early B-17) that were delivered by Boeing to US Army in 1937.With these bombers the Second Bombardment Group came into being.The Commanding Officer was Lt. Col. Robert Olds who came under the General Headquarters Air Force.The cration of The first four-engine bomber unit in the USA was finished on 5th of April 1937.The main task of the 2nd BG was to compile from the beginning all practical rules of operational long range flights.All twelve Y1B-17s that were the equipment of the 2nd BG were flying all over the USA territory in all weather conditions.In 1938 the General Headquarters Air Force set up the anti-aircraft maneuvers.the Y1B-17s took part in this as wll with the new experimental camo scheme.

Here you are a colour profile I found in a book about B-17 with these used colours mentioned in its caption.

I hope I helped with this.

Micdrow · 07-07-2008, 04:52 PM

You are correct Wurger, great follow up. I had found a couple of more pictures of that B-17. It is an interesting camo.

520516MA, Ive never seen that book either. I think Im going to have to check it out though I do have plenty of pictures on the inside of a B-17

Thanks Guys!!!!

Wurger · 07-07-2008, 05:09 PM

Although I'm not interested in as bombers as fighters but I have been wonder if there were taken other shots of the Y1B-17s with the camo.Great info Mic....Could you upload them here?

Micdrow · 07-07-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Wurger

Although I'm not interested in as bombers as fighters but I have been wonder if there were taken other shots of the Y1B-17s with the camo.Great info Mic....Could you upload them here?

Here you go Wurger, from the book B-17 flying fortress part 2 by Monografi Lotnicze vol 91