Battle Damaged Boeings

ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2309

That right there is why you couldn't pay me to fly on a plastic Scarebus..

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:59 am

Amazing photos!

Indian head · **Joined:** Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:31 pm **Posts:** 71

ZRX61 wrote:

That right there is why you couldn't pay me to fly on a plastic Scarebus..

Aww, that's a shame; I had a spare ticket for the composite 787's first revenue flight...I'll just have to give it to somebody else instead

Mgawa · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:33 pm

Very strong machine!!!

avenger2504 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:53 pm

I feel sorry for the ball turret gunner in one shot! Wonder if he survived?

Holedigger · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 5:06 pm

That interior shot of the gutted waist (and the outside shot of the port side shattered ball) is "Little Miss Mischief", an that is why she needed and got a new tail. She flew some more combat missions until her luck really ran out. If I read correctly, one waist gunner and the ball turret gunner were slightly injured, with the ball gunner also getting some frostbite on the way home. Says a lot for luck and the strength of the airframe.

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 5:18 pm

My dad always told me he'd much rather spend time in a foxhole than in an airplane when the lead and shrapnel was flying.

Scott

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:29 pm

I've got some others that are just brutal and you'd can well imagine the outcome :cry:

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:31 pm

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Is the 724 on the bulkhead part of the Vega c/n (which I think would be 7245)?

RAMC181 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:56 pm

Chris Brame wrote:

Is the 724 on the bulkhead part of the Vega c/n (which I think would be 7245)?

Yes, that's the contract number.
There's an example of using a similar partial view to identify another B-17 in the Chuckie Restoration thread.

All the best,
PB

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:13 pm

Somewhere you know ol Gary is saying "That ought to buff right out"

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11332

Boeing built them strong back then, and builds them strong to this day.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:12 am

those pics are a testimonial to u.s. expertise & quality in manufactoring & design.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:38 pm

...and the brave aircrews who brought them home on a wing and a prayer!

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