The Bally Bomber B-17 is an original design by Jack Bally. The four-engine aircraft features retractable landing gear and is built with all riveted aluminum construction. The plans for the EAA experimental aircraft were enlarged from 1/9-scale RC aircraft plans. Despite being a scale replica, ...
do a large-scale model airplane, that also means you’ve got to do detailing.That means steam gauges rendered in 3D printed parts. [wilmracer] is modeling the cockpit and the machine guns in 1:9 scale. This is going to be an awesome build, and yes, there will eventually be plans. ...
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the 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 Corp...
Interestingly enough, the extensive B-17 evaluations seem to have had very little impact on Japanese bomber design. Aside from 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...
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