AIR FORCE ONE 1 MODELS AF1-0110A 1/72 B-17G FLYING FORTRESS BOMBER DIECAST MODEL For Sale -

AIR FORCE ONE 1 MODELS AF1-0110A 1/72 B-17G FLYING FORTRESS BOMBER DIECAST MODEL

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AIR FORCE ONE 1 MODELS AF1-0110A 1/72 B-17G FLYING FORTRESS BOMBER DIECAST MODEL:
$91.41

Air Force One AF1-0110A Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress USAAF 323rd BS 91st BG Nine-O-Nine RAF Bassingbourn 1944. With a Stand Issued and deleted in 2018 as a limited edition, Lovely Die Cast Model in 1:72 scale measures 31.29cm / 12.24 inches from nose to tail and 43.89cm / 17.12 inches from wing tip to wing tip. Plane is mint as is the picture box. We have reduced this model as it has some battle damage on the port side just below the rear window

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber 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 (prototype Model 299/XB-17) outperformed both competitors and exceeded the air corps' performance specifications. Although Boeing lost the contract (to the Douglas B-18 Bolo) because the prototype crashed, the air corps ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation. From its introduction in 1938, the B-17 Flying Fortress evolved through numerous design advances, becoming the third-most produced bomber of all time, behind the B-24 and the multirole Ju 88.

The B-17 was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the daylight strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets. The United States Eighth Air Force, based at many airfields in central and southern England, and the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, complemented the RAF Bomber Command's nighttime area bombing in the Combined Bomber Offensive to help secure air superiority over the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for the invasion of France in 1944. The B-17 also participated to a lesser extent in the War in the Pacific, early in World War II, where it conducted raids against Japanese shipping and airfields.

From its prewar inception, the USAAC (by June 1941, the USAAF) promoted the aircraft as a strategic weapon; it was a relatively fast, high-flying, long-range bomber with heavy defensive armament at the expense of bombload. It developed a reputation for toughness based upon stories and photos of badly damaged B-17s safely returning to base.The B-17 developed a reputation as an effective bomber, dropping more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II. Of the 1.5 million tonnes of bombs dropped on Nazi Germany and its occupied territories by U.S. aircraft, 640,000 tonnes were dropped from B-17s. In addition to its role as a bomber, the B-17 was also employed as a transport, antisubmarine aircraft, drone controller, and search-and-rescue aircraft.

As of May 2015, ten aircraft remain airworthy. None of those ten were ever flown in combat. Dozens more are in storage or on static display. The oldest of these is a D-series flown in combat in the Pacific and the Caribbean.


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