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Boeing B-17 flying fortress : 1935 onwards (all marks) : an insight into owning, restoring, servicing and flying America's legendary World War II bomber / Graeme Douglas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Haynes owners workshop manual seriesPublisher: Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset : Haynes Publishing, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 160 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781785211201
  • 178521120X
Subject(s): Summary: MILITARY AIRCRAFT. Spearhead of the US 8th Air Force's daylight bomber offensive over Germany and north-west Europe in the Second World War, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress has become one of the most famous and best-known bomber aircraft of all time. The B-17 is the latest classic aircraft to receive the Haynes Manual treatment, with French-owned and operated B-17G Pink Lady and the Imperial War Museum's B-17G Mary Alice providing this manual's centrepieces. Author Graeme Douglas gives a full insight into owning, servicing and flying the USAAF's formidable Second World War bomber.
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Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 629.133 BOE Available T00631102
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Spearhead of the US 8th Air Force's daylight bomber offensive over Germany and northwest Europe in the Second World War, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress has become one of the most famous and best-known bomber aircraft of all time.

The B-17 is the latest classic aircraft to receive the Haynes Manual treatment, with French-owned and operated B-17G Pink Lady and the Imperial War Museum's B-17G Mary Alice providing this manual's centerpieces. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Manual author Graeme Douglas gives a full insight into owning, servicing and flying the USAAF's formidable Second World War bomber.

Originally published: 2011.

"An insight into owning, restoring, servicing and flying the America's legendary World War II bomber" --Cover/title page.

MILITARY AIRCRAFT. Spearhead of the US 8th Air Force's daylight bomber offensive over Germany and north-west Europe in the Second World War, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress has become one of the most famous and best-known bomber aircraft of all time. The B-17 is the latest classic aircraft to receive the Haynes Manual treatment, with French-owned and operated B-17G Pink Lady and the Imperial War Museum's B-17G Mary Alice providing this manual's centrepieces. Author Graeme Douglas gives a full insight into owning, servicing and flying the USAAF's formidable Second World War bomber.

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