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Zagi-2
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Rajay's post about the Rutan-designed B-17 got me looking around the web.

Check out this single-engine B-17. Weird! http://www.pointniner.com/2008/08/single-engine-b-17-other-rare-aircraft.html

You may also want to peruse this great online collection of other strange and rare WWII aircraft from both the Axis & Allied sides. http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/

Just when you thought you'd seen it all... :)

Enjoy!

PS - Since I originally posted this 2 hours ago, several people have asserted that the B-17 picture must be photo-shopped. I have since conducted additional research, and suspect the picture to be a (fascinating) fake.

See E.G.:
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2455

and

http://aerofiles.com/boe-b17turbo.jpg (note that the top picture looks to have been taken during the same flight as the picture that started this post (http://www.pointniner.com/2008/08/single-engine-b-17-other-rare-aircraft.html)


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It has to be a retouched photograph of one of the 5 engine test beds. Everything about the single engine photo looks identical to the 5 engine one. If anything so fantastic as to remove the other 4 engines had ever been done I can't imagine we would only be discovering it now.

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John Dupre wrote:
It has to be a retouched photograph of one of the 5 engine test beds. Everything about the single engine photo looks identical to the 5 engine one. If anything so fantastic as to remove the other 4 engines had ever been done I can't imagine we would only be discovering it now.


Yep, a photochop job. Anyone who is unconvinced should ask him/herself where the main gear would go in a B-17 with no nacelles.
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Kyleb wrote:
John Dupre wrote:
It has to be a retouched photograph of one of the 5 engine test beds. Everything about the single engine photo looks identical to the 5 engine one. If anything so fantastic as to remove the other 4 engines had ever been done I can't imagine we would only be discovering it now.


Yep, a photochop job. Anyone who is unconvinced should ask him/herself where the main gear would go in a B-17 with no nacelles.


Maybe after the difficulties they had with the landing gear on the Rutan canard YB-40-RU :wink: as we previously discussed,
they used this single engine B-17 flying testbed to develop the tandem landing gear system they later used on the B-47. :D

(Rule of thumb: the best BS contains at least a kernel of truth to lend it a touch of validity....) 8)
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Who needs landing gear when you have antigravity generators on board! :wink: (just about as believable!!!)

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b29flteng wrote:
Photoshopped B-17


yep! :lol:

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i subsrcibe to so many av mags & can tell you this has been 1 hot topic lately!!! :rolleyes:

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Anybody got pix of the Liberty Belle in its five engine configuration?

The second link has some real bizarros. The first time I looked at the listing of American a/c the first one gave me a reaction of "man, someone's been rooting around unsupervised in the storage hangar."

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Zagi-2 wrote:
Rajay's post about the Rutan-designed B-17 got me looking around the web.

Check out this single-engine B-17. Weird! http://www.pointniner.com/2008/08/single-engine-b-17-other-rare-aircraft.html

You may also want to peruse this great online collection of other strange and rare WWII aircraft from both the Axis & Allied sides. http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/

Just when you thought you'd seen it all... :)

Enjoy!

PS - Since I originally posted this 2 hours ago, several people have asserted that the B-17 picture must be photo-shopped. I have since conducted additional research, and suspect the picture to be a (fascinating) fake.

See E.G.:
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2455

and

http://aerofiles.com/boe-b17turbo.jpg (note that the top picture looks to have been taken during the same flight as the picture that started this post (http://www.pointniner.com/2008/08/single-engine-b-17-other-rare-aircraft.html)


Pretty sure thats Liberty Belle! Yep, another photoshop job. I really hope no one here thinks its real!

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