I'm an American and I love the B-17 too..but in all fairness, the Brits had a better bomber, the Lancaster....it had plenty of endurance and it carried over twice the bombload of the '17...but the B-17 certainly did its share and the USA built many more of them than the Brits built of the Lanc......I'd still rather ride the '17.
Hey mika3607: You are an idiot. You OBVIOUSLY don't know a thing about history. These old warbirds didn't 'make death' as you say, they did the opposite. Every bomb dropped on Hitler's army brought us that closer to the end of the war, thereby saving countless Allied lives. Adolf Hitler was pure evil. 6 MILLION innocent Jewish men, women & children perished at his hands. He had to be stopped. Asking politely wasn't going to do the trick. He needed hellfire delivered & the B-17 brought it!
perfect, untouched, clean and sparkling silver. no one ever died on this plane, i believe that if the plane made death there will always be some kind of curse on it, it has been proven, some b-17's that battled in the WWII and survived are planes that break down or crash and burn, it may not happen always, but it happened.
I'm an American and I love the B-17 too..but in all fairness, the Brits had a better bomber, the Lancaster....it had plenty of endurance and it carried over twice the bombload of the '17...but the B-17 certainly did its share and the USA built many more of them than the Brits built of the Lanc......I'd still rather ride the '17.
FlierFrank172 1 month ago
Hey mika3607: You are an idiot. You OBVIOUSLY don't know a thing about history. These old warbirds didn't 'make death' as you say, they did the opposite. Every bomb dropped on Hitler's army brought us that closer to the end of the war, thereby saving countless Allied lives. Adolf Hitler was pure evil. 6 MILLION innocent Jewish men, women & children perished at his hands. He had to be stopped. Asking politely wasn't going to do the trick. He needed hellfire delivered & the B-17 brought it!
chooch1995 5 months ago 2
perfect, untouched, clean and sparkling silver. no one ever died on this plane, i believe that if the plane made death there will always be some kind of curse on it, it has been proven, some b-17's that battled in the WWII and survived are planes that break down or crash and burn, it may not happen always, but it happened.
mikak3607 6 months ago