¯ Jack was discussing "POSTCARD" with All. ®
JS¯ B-17...
JS¯ The B-17 was slow, cumbersome, unpressurized, unheated, and very
JS¯ drafty.
JS¯ That being said, for its purpose nobody else at the time had
JS¯ anything better!
In a lot of ways, it was the B-2 bomber of the late 1930s.  It was
the most expensive combat aircraft ever constructed up to that time.
It was state-of-the-art in every respect...
The government in its traditional short-sightedness almost killed
the contract with Boeing.  If they'd have done that, the history of
WWII would have been VERY different than we know it...
The Boeing B-17 bomber was without a doubt the single most important
weapon of WWII...
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.45 ACP:  ONE-HUNDRED years of successful practical testing!
... The Consolidated B-24 Liberator Bomber.  The crate the B-17 came in.
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 * ¯ NRA Life Member, 1972 ® *
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