Issue 8 - Boeing B-17: Contents
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Rolling Thunder... Shaping the bombers... The Boeing XB-15... In the beginning... The Boeing B-17 ‘Fortress’ in RAF service... Thorpe Abbotts – Memorial to the many... 52 Inside the B-17... Maintaining an aluminium mountain... The longest mission...100 Air Refuelling Wing... KG200... Project Aphrodite... PB-1s – The Navy and Coast Guard... Postwar workhorses...
6 Rolling Thunder
8 Shaping the bombers
10 The Boeing XB-15
12 In the beginning
16 The early years
20 The Boeing B-17 ‘Fortress’ in RAF service – Part one
26 The B-17E – A Flying Fortress at last
32 The B-17F – A matter of defence
42 Thorpe Abbotts – Memorial to the many
46 The thoroughbred emerges – The B-17G
52 Inside the B-17
64 Maintaining an aluminium mountain
69 Little Friends
74 The longest mission
80 Felix Fortresses
84 100 Air Refuelling Wing
90 The Boeing B-17 ‘Fortress’ in RAF service – Part two
94 KG200
98 Sally B – The flying memorial
102 Tough!
105 Project Aphrodite
109 PB-1s – The Navy and Coast Guard
113 Oddball B-17s
118 Israeli B-17s
120 Postwar workhorses
126 Survivors
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