B-17 Flying Fortress Dorsal Fin Assembly

Woman Cleaning B-17 Flying Fortress Tail Section Under Construction

Woman Welder Working on a B-17 Flying Fortress

Assembling B-17 Dorsal Fins at Douglas Long Beach Factory in 1943

B-17 Flying Fortress Tail Turret Assembly

Woman Drilling a B-17 Flying Fortress Tail Turret

Woman Inside B-17G Flying Fortress Chin Turret

A Douglas "Rosie" in Long Beach Rivets a Boeing B-17 Tail

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B-17 Flying Fortress Dorsal Fin Assembly

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In response for the Army's request for a large, multiengine bomber, the B-17 (Model 299) prototype, financed entirely by Boeing, went from design board to flight test in less than 12 months. The B-17 was the first Boeing military aircraft with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit and was armed with bombs and five .30-caliber machine guns mounted in clear "blisters." Boeing plants built a total of 6,981 B-17s in various models, and another 5,745 were built under a nationwide collaborative effort by Douglas and Lockheed (Vega). Only a few B-17s survive today; most were scrapped at the end of the war.

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