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1944
1944 - 0916.PDF
474 FLIGHT MAY 4TH, 1944 FLYING FORTRESS (B-17G) \ FABRIC COVERED RUDDER TifN j DE-ICER ON FIN TAIL CUNS FABRIC COVERED ELEVATOR the twin .5m. gun remotely controlled "chin" turret, and an electronic synchronisation system for the turbo-super chargers, are more ably fitted to carry out their job of work than any of their several predecessors. Main particulars of the Flying Fortress will already be familiar to Flight readers, but there are many aspects of this interesting aircraft which have not as yet ueen given. The fuselage is circular in section except where the "coach roof," running from the cockpit to the radio operator's dorsal gun, is superimposed. The truly circular section is also disrupted by the bomb-door curvature, but these are the only departures from the ' vS- H PORT WAIST CUN y. DE-ICER ON LEADINC EDGE HOUSINC FOR RETRACTABLE TAIL WHEEL basic section, for ex crescences such as the fin spine fillet and the various gun protuberances-cannot truthfully be included in the main cross-sectional shape. Transversely, the- DOOR WING AREA: WING LOADING: GROSS WEIGHT (combat) POWER LOADING: 1,420 sq. ft. 38.45 Jb./sq.ft. : - 55.000 lb. - 13-75 'b./h.p. MAX RANGE (absolute: no bombs): 3,000 miles NOMINAL MAX. BOMB LOAD; 9,600 lb. (stowed internally) MAX. SFEED (combat conditions): 300 m.p.h. OPERATIONAL CEILING: 30,000ft ARMAMENT : Fourteen 2-gim power turrets) COMBAT CREW : *% .5* guns (three Nine STARBOARD WAIST CUN HORIZONTAL BOMI DORSAL CUN ,N VERTICAl (MANNED BY R,ACKS RADIO OPERATOR) / RADIO OPERATOR AMMUNITION CATWALK f*\ BALL TURRET VENTILATINC SLOTS FOR HOT AIR FROM OIL RADIATORS AND SUPERCHARCER COOLER - SELF-SEALINC FUEL TANKS: CAMERA WELL " r^ FABRIC COVERED AILERON V: <>. / LANDINC LIGHT vc <X --OIL' .TANK DE-ICER LEADINC ON EDCE AIR DUCTS TO SUPERCHARCER AND COOLER C.E. TURBO-SUPERCHARCERS IN EACH NACELLE il>r\\\NTAN,< /1 / **^* v%\^ /V/x AIR DUCTS V^v/ ¥/y TO OIL N^Sfe; MCr RADIATORS - ^C^TW ^V // A >NC \J\// AIR DUCTS TOX- \gdJ ' SUPERCHARCER ^WhJ AND COOLER / ^Sff X COOLING / , Stf*Sv CONTROL . -/ r\*J CILLS BATTBrf Vova / HN / • 1 A special Fttglt copfj the#teriore»
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