Single Engine B17! (& other oddities)
Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:13 am
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)
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)
Last edited by Zagi-2 on Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:55 am, edited 3 times in total.
Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:51 am
Photoshopped B-17
Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:56 am
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.
Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:23 am
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.
Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:55 am
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
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.
(Rule of thumb: the best BS contains at least a kernel of truth to lend it a touch of validity....)
Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:27 am
Who needs landing gear when you have antigravity generators on board! (just about as believable!!!)
(just about as believable!!!)
Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:31 am
b29flteng wrote:Photoshopped B-17
yep!
Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:04 pm
i subsrcibe to so many av mags & can tell you this has been 1 hot topic lately!!! 
Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:33 pm
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."
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."
Re: Single Engine B17! (& other oddities)
Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:26 am
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!