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[[8 views of the B-17G aircraft]] [[images: 3/4 front starboard (right} side; 3/4 front port (left) side; front view; 3/4 rear starboard side; 3/4 rear port side; Chin turret (caption: Chin turret is remote-controlled by the bombardier, has two .50-cal. guns.); bomb bay (caption: Cross-section of bomb bay shows 300-pound bombs in racks, bomb doors open. Walkway is center "V."; tail turret (caption: New tail turret has better visibility, greater horizontal and vertical range.)]] INTERESTING FEATURES OF THE B-17G The famed Flying Fortress has had eight major alterations made in its design since it first flu in 1935. The eight model, shown on both sides of the shade style is in large-scale production by Lockheed and Douglas; Boeing discontinued B-17 production sometime ago in favor of the B 29, the FLYING drawing on the reverse side, and the photographs and sketches on this page, deal with Lockeed-built fortress. The actual airplane what is a B 17 G Dash 75 – VEThe actual airplane what is a B-17G-75-VE. The number 75 indicates the 75th minor modification of the "G"; the letters VE originally stood for Vega, the recently-absorbed subsidiary of Lockheed. Two new armament features on the "G-75-VE" are the redesigned tail turret sketched and right, and a fixed socket mount for the dorsal gun (see the drawing on the reverse side). [[end page]] [[start page]] Consolidated [[image: detailed, numbered, cutaway, three dimensional drawing of the tail section of an aircraft]] Consolidated B-24J Liberator 1 Rudder trim tab 2 Fabric-covered rudder 3 Rudder hinges (metal leading edge) 4 Starboard tailfin 5 Leading-edge de-icing boot 6 Starboard rudder horn 7 Rudder push-pull tube 8 Rear navigation light 9 Tailplane stringers 10 Consolidated (or Motor Products) two-gun electrically operated tail turret (-.5 in) [[gun barrels highlighted in red]] 11 Elevator torque tube 12 Elevator trim tab 13 Elevator frame (fabric covered) 14 Rudder trim tab 15 Tab control linkage 16 Rudder post 17 Light-alloy rudder frame 18 HF aerial 19 Tailfin construction 20 Metal-covered fixed surfaces 21 Tailplane front spar 22 Port elevator push-pull tube 23 Elevator drive quadrant 24 Elevator servo unit 25 Rudder servo unit 26 Ammunition feed track (tail turret) 27 Fuselage aft main frame 28 Walkway 29 Signal cartridges 30 Longitudinal Z-section stringers 31 Control cables 32 Fuselage intermediate secondary frames 33 Ammunition box 34 Aft-fuselage camera installation 35 Lower windows 36 Waist gun support mounting 37 Starboard manually operated waist gun (0.5 in) [[gun barrel highlighted in red]] 38 Waist position (open) 39 Wind deflector plate 40 Waist position hinged cover 41 Port manually operated waist gun (0.5 in) [[gun barrel highlighted in red]] 42 Dorsal aerial 43 Ball-turret stanchion support beam 44 Ammunition box 45 Ball-turret stanchion 46 Midships window 47 Turret well 48 Cabin floor 49 Tail bumper operating jack 50 Tail-bumper fairing 51 Briggs-Sperry two-gun electrically operated ball turret (0.5 in) 52 Turret actuation mechanism 53 Bomb-door actuation sprocket (hydraulically operated 54 Bomb-bay corrugated) inner skin 55 Bomb-bay catwalk (box keel) 56Bomb-bay catwalk vertical channel support members (bomb-release solenoids) 57 Bomb-door actuation track and rollers 58 Wing rear spar 59 Bomb-bay access tunnel 60 Fuselage main frame bulkhead [[items 61-68 are cut off]] [[items 77-85 are partially cut off, see page 56 for text of all items]]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator#Specifications_(B-24J)