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Bomber #666: The Outrageous Custom Modified B-17 with 16 .50 Caliber Machine Guns

In 1943, a B-17 Flying Fortress laid low in a boneyard, ready to be torn apart for scraps. The aircraft came with a ...
HeraldNet

Everett man builds B-17 replica in his garage

EVERETT — Thatcher Johnson has spent years building stuff. A former aerospace repair worker, Johnson had built replica airplane equipment, replica plane seats and a full 737 flight simulator in his ...
The National Interest

A B-17 Bomber Is Being Restored—After Years as a Gas Station Ornament!

The B-17G Flying Fortress that Art Lacey bought never saw combat in World War II—but spent decades overlooking a gas station in western Oregon. A particular Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, known today as ...
SlashGear

This WW2 Bomber Spent Over 6 Decades On A Gas Station Roof - Now It Might Fly Again

The B-17 bomber, also known as the Flying Fortress, helped change the course of World War II. Manufactured by Boeing, over 12,000 were made for combat. It was dubbed a flying fortress due to its ...
KGW8

Slowly but surely, volunteers plan to make this WWII-era B-17 bomber fly again: 'This is not work; this is just fun'

SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...