Flying the same airframe that had dropped the atomic bombs on Japan just years earlier
the largest and heaviest aircraft ever designed to operate from an aircraft carrier
This is a 1/400 scale photo-realistic ground mat for a Model of the Monterey California Regional Airport (KMRY)
recovering aircraft that might otherwise have been lost to fuel exhaustion
served cold to Japanese night raiders who thought they owned the skies after sunset
Boeing (Vega) B-17G 44-85774 Flying the same airframe thatThese are 1 72 scale decals for Boeing (Vega) B 17G 44 85774, serving postwar with the 4136th Base Unit, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, United States Air Force. By the late 1940s, surviving B 17Gs had transitioned from frontline combat bombers to a variety of support, training, and administrative roles under the newly independent USAF. Tinker Field now Tinker Air Force Base was a major Air Materiel Command depot, and B 17s assigned to base units there