Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Role: Strategic bomber National origin: United States Manufacturer: Boeing First flight: 28 July 1935 Introduction: April 1938 Retired: 1968 (Brazilian Air Force) Primary users:United States Army Air Force, Royal Air Force ...
不过由于陆军航空军对波音的B-17设计印象深刻,因此仍旧订购了13架B-17型轰炸机作为后续评估使用,也自此揭开B-17轰炸机辉煌的战争岁月。自1938年第一架B-17出厂,B-17轰炸机在二战前后历经多次改良,以适应快速变化的空中战场与局势。 It is the third-most produced bomber of all time, behind the American ...
The B-17G introduced new fire power in the form of the Bendix chin turret. On 19 July 1943, US B-17s andB-24 Liberatorscarried out the first bombing raid on Rome. US bombing in Europe reached its high point in February 1945 with a 1,000-bomber raid on Berlin, escorted by 400 figh...
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The Canberra had its formal origins in a 1944 requirement issued by the Air Ministry for a successor to the de Havilland Mosquito. This requirement, the initial revision being E.3/45, sought a high altitude, high-speed bomber which was to be equipped with no defensive armament. According to...
The Canberra had its formal origins in a 1944 requirement issued by the Air Ministry for a successor to the de Havilland Mosquito. This requirement, the initial revision being E.3/45, sought a high altitude, high-speed bomber which was to be equipped with no defensive armament. According to...
Allied bomber squadrons used evasive maneuvers to avoid flak, but the bomber streams remained very vulnerable to the devastating effects of flak. Also, the B-17 could fly higher than the B-24. B-24s flying at 2,000 to 3,000 ft. below the B-17s, offered better targets for the flak ...
Japan’s near copy of the Douglas DC-4E as a bomber—the Nakajima G5N—its other four-engine land-based bomber, the Nakajima G8N, which entered production toward the end of the war, was more advanced in terms of its structural design and gained nothing from the B-17’s airframe ...
The B7A2 was a carrier-borne torpedo-dive bomber developed by Aichi for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during the Second World War. It was designed to replace the B6N Tenzan and the D4Y Suisei in the Navy's service. It had a mid-wing configu
Good dive speed Cons: The belly of the aircraft lacks any defence Poor climb rate and energy retention Less effective as a dogfighter due to its size, however, can perform Boom & Zoom without too much manoeuvring Less effective as a high-altitude bomber (accuracy), better for mid to low ...