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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress G-BEDF Sally B is the last remaining airworthy B-17 in Europe. She is based in the UK from where she flies regularly at air shows, memorial flypasts and commemorative events as a memorial to the USAAF in Europe. Since 1982, Sally B has been operated by Elly Sallingboe of B-17 Preservation with the help of a dedicated team. Sally B is maintained by Chief Engineer Peter Brown and his team of volunteers, and flown by volunteer experienced professional pilots.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry (prototype Model 299/XB-17) outperformed both competitors and exceeded the Air Corps' performance specifications. Although Boeing lost the contract (to the Douglas B-18 Bolo) because the prototype crashed, the Air Corps ordered 13 more B-17s for further evaluation. From its introduction in 1938, the B-17 Flying Fortress evolved through numerous design advances, becoming the third-most produced bomber of all time, behind the four-engined Consolidated B-24 Liberator and the multirole, twin-engined Junkers Ju 88.
The B-17 was primarily employed by the USAAF in the daylight strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial, military and civilian targets. The United States Eighth Air Force, based at many airfields in central, eastern and southern England, and the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, complemented the RAF Bomber Command's night-time area bombing in the Combined Bomber Offensive to help secure air superiority over the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for the invasion of France in 1944. The B-17 also participated to a lesser extent in the Pacific War, early in World War II, where it conducted raids against Japanese shipping and airfields.
From its prewar inception, the USAAC (by June 1941, 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 developed a reputation for toughness based upon stories and photos of badly damaged B-17s safely returning to base. The B-17 dropped more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II. Of approximately 1.5 million tons of bombs dropped on Nazi Germany and its occupied territories by U.S. aircraft, over 640,000 tons were dropped from B-17s. In addition to its role as a bomber, the B-17 was also employed as a transport, antisubmarine aircraft, drone controller, and search-and-rescue aircraft.
As of October 2019, nine aircraft remain airworthy, though none of them were ever flown in combat. Dozens more are in storage or on static display. The oldest of these is a D-series flown in combat in the Pacific on the first day of World War II.
A Boeing 737 MAX 7 in action during its display at the Farnborough International Airshow at TAG London Farnborough Airport
Boeing 747SP-27 N747A, c/n 21992, purchased by NASA to provide spare parts for the SOFIA airborne observatory.
N747A was originally delivered to Braniff International Airways as N606BN. It passed through service with several other airlines before being owned by the founder of the Fry's Electronics chain.
See:
www.planespotters.net/airframe/Boeing/747/N747A-NASA/6DKA...
PIA Pakistan International Cargo
AP-AWY Pakistan
Boeing 707-340C
Jahrgang 1968
International Airport Athen 30. April 1983
Boeing 777X (777-9X), msn 64240, LN 1567, reg N779XW, seen in static and flying display at Dubai Airshow 2021.
Engine exhaust contrails
Nikon D7100
18.0-105.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
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TF-ABR - Boeing B-747-133 - SAUDIA
(leases from Air Atlanta Icelandic)
at Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport (FRA) in 1997
c/n 20.014 - built in 1971 for Air Canada and operated as C-FTOB until 1985 -
also operated by Wardair 1986 - 1990 -
by Nationair 12/1992 - 05/1993 -
to Air AtlantaIcelandic and leased to SAUDIA several times for Haji- charterwork -
retired in 2000 and brokenup at MZJ
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
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An aircraft of US Air Force in Zurich to take material back to USA after the visit of Donald Trump in Switzerland.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 44-61669 at the Barstow-Daggett Airport in June 1981. This aircraft is now on display at the March Field Museum, California. Delivered to the USAAF on 5 May 1945 at the Boeing facility in Renton, Washington. It was assigned to the 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 500th Bomb Group, 833rd Bomb Squadron flying combat missions out of Saipan. It carried the name “Flagship 500″ and had a “Z-49″ on its tail at the end of WWII. Its last USAF assignment was in 1956 with the 581st Air Resupply Group at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. It was transferred as a TB-29A trainer to the US Navy on 18 March 1956. The aircraft was recovered from the Naval Test Center at China Lake, restored by a private organization, and flown from Daggett Field, Barstow, to March AFB.
C-FNNH - Boeing B-777-233/LR - Air Canada
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 35.247 - built in 2008