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Aviation History
1941
1941 - 1380.PDF
FLIGHT JUNE ICJTH, 1941.3 Twenty-fourth of the Series FRIEND or FOE? Two Useful Contributions from America : The Flying Fortress and the Boston Boeing Flying Fortress. Low-wing, dihedral from roots.Uniform taper on bath edges, round tips. Four radial engines centred on leading-edge. Cabin top faired into circularsection fuselage which tapers to pointed tail. Under-turret aft of wings. Tapered cantilever tailplane, large fin and rudder. THE two American aircraft described this week arevery much before the public eye at the presenttime. The Boston has been^ earning well-merited publicity in regular action, particularly in its night-fight- ing version under the name of the Havoc, and the Boeing Flying Fortress (the B-17 series which has now reached B-17E) is one of the two four-engined bombers upon which the American aircraft industry is now concentrating for the R.A.F. The other one is, of course, the Consolidated Liberator, which has already figured in this series. The Boston, one of the best looking of the Douglas Douglas Boston. Mid-wing, dihedral from roots, pronouncedtaper on trailing-edge only, round tips. Twin radial engines, underslung nacelles project past trailing-edge. Well stream-lined slim fuselage. Nose projects well forward of engines. Dihedral to tapered tailplane, tall symetrically tapered fin and rudder. products, is a particularly easy aircraft to recognise Note the long, slim nose projecting well beyond the twin radial engines, the sharp taper to the trailing edge of the mid-wings which are mounted almost amidships, and the way the beautifully streamlined nacelles are faired off beyond the trailing-edge. Note also the tall, symmetric- ally tapered fin and rudder with its rounded apex and, most distinctive of all, the pronounced dihedral angle to the tapered cantilever tailplane. The graceful lines of the fuselage are perhaps most obvious in the side view, the tapered, transparent nose and smoothly faired-ofi
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