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SB-17G Flying Fortress, 44-83722, also designated B-17H, used as a Search and Rescue aircraft. This airframe was subsequently used as a target during three Operation Snapper atomic tests at Yucca Flats in the 1950s. Back of airframe broken aft the wing, extensive skin damage. The remnants are being used in the restoration of 44-85813 in Urbana, Ohio
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This the B-17 in question:
Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:32 pm
Jack Cook wrote:I wonder if that sucker is hard to taxi like that![]()
Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:29 pm
tom d. friedman wrote:the u.s. govt was pretty careless in exposing troops to these tests. an ugly footnote.... when howard hughes had shot the movie ghengis khan with john wayne, it was shot in a previous nuclear test area, hughes ignored this fact, & i believe covered it up to the movie cast. naturally hughes was nowhere near the set, & john wayne succumbed to cancer in 1976.
Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes provided the financial backing for this film and later paid an extra $12 million (estimated) for every existing print of it from a sense of guilt - it was he who paid for the shipping of 60 tons of radioactive dirt to Hollywood for retakes (see above). He kept a jealous hold on the film, not even allowing it to be seen on television, for 17 years until 1974, when Paramount managed to secure the rights to reissue it.
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mustangdriver wrote:Isn't that how Steve McQueen got cancer? From riding a motorcycle out by one of these test sites?
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