B-17 Flying Fortress (American flight manuals) - Softcover

Design Analysis of The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Zustand: Good. Reprint from Aviation, January, 1945. The format is approximately 8 inches by 11 inches. Pages 121-144. Illustrations (some with color) Exploded views. Pages 129-132 is a fold-out. Tabular Data. Cover has wear and soiling. The author was the Vice-President in charge of Engineering at the Boeing Aircraft Company. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II. It is the third-most produced bomber of all time, behind the four-engined Consolidated B-24 Liberator and the multirole, twin-engined Junkers Ju 88. It was also employed as a transport, antisubmarine aircraft, drone controller, and search-and-rescue aircraft. In a competition, Boeing's prototype Model 299/XB-17 outperformed two other entries but crashed, losing the initial 200-bomber contract to the Douglas B-18 Bolo. Still, the Air Corps ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation, then introduced it into service in 1938. The B-17 evolved through numerous design advances but from its inception, the USAAC (later, the USAAF) promoted the aircraft as a strategic weapon. It was a relatively fast, high-flying, long-range bomber with heavy defensive armament at the expense of bombload. It also developed a reputation for toughness based upon stories and photos of badly damaged B-17s safely returning to base. The B-17 saw early action in the Pacific War, where it conducted raids against enemy shipping and airfields. Wellwood Edmetson Beall was an aerospace pioneer who had major roles in developing the B 17 Flying Fortress, the B 29 Superfortress and the Boeing 707. As an airplane designer and engineer, he ordered continuous modification in the B 17 Flying Fortress to meet changing battle conditions over Europe in World War II. At the same time, he was developing the B 29 for the long range strategic bombing of Japan. Mr. Beall, who served 30 years with the Boeing Company in Seattle, was that concern's chief engineer from 1939 to 1943, when he was named vice president. He became senior vice president in 1952 and remained in that position until 1964. At the time he became corporate and executive vice president for operations for the Douglas Aircraft Company, in Santa Monica, a division of McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Mr. Beall began his career in the aircraft industry in 1930, when he became an aeronautical engineer at the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Beall received a B.S. degree at New York University. Four years after he went to the Boeing School, he was hired by Boeing and named Far Eastern manager with responsibility for selling the company's fighter and transport planes to the Chinese Government. He remained in China in 1934 and part of 1935, but returned to this country that year. As a designer he was in charge of design and engineering research for Boeing Model 314 Flying Boats, Stratoliners, Boeing Superfortresses, Stratocruisers, Stratojets and guided missiles. He was the author of various articles for scientific and engineering magazines.Military and Naval Manuals and Regulations. Comb binding, clear plastic front cover and stiff board at the rear. Artikel-Nr. 86511

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