B-17 skin request

[Major552]

[GrimCH]

...post war scheme?

[Major552]

how about this one then

[Spikes]

Doesn't look like our model at all. Look up some info before you post, please.

[Banshee7]

its a modified B-17G.....and thats what we have in game

[Jester]

Second pic is still a Post-War Bird.

[Guppy35]

Yep, no guns, no turrets, good radar.  Not used as a bomber

[Major552]

no i just want a skin of it

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Not going to happen, unless you can find a picture or some information on who used it, and when.

Two rules for future posts.

1:ANYTHING after 45' Will never be added, or used.

2:ANYTHING NOT USED IN LARGE NUMBERS OR SENT TO FIELD UNITS, WILL NOT BE ADDED.
Failure to fallow these rule will have you dubbed "moron" or "squeeker", or just "ignorant". 


Besides, by the markings i am guessing this is a 46-50's early radar warning system, or kind of a early AWACS.(?)
Maby someone could dig some information up on this aircrafts units and such, who knows.

[Fencer51]

During the last year of the war and shortly thereafter, the US Navy acquired 48 ex-USAAF B-17s for patrol and air-sea rescue work. At first, these planes operated under their original USAAF designations, but on July 31, 1945 they were assigned the designation PB-1, a designation which had originally been used in 1925 for an experimental flying boat. Since most of the Fortresses involved were actually built by Douglas or Lockheed and not by Boeing, a more logical designation would have been P4D-1W or P3V-1G respectively.

The Navy Bureau of Aeronautics assigned the sequence of serial numbers between 77225 and 77258 to these aircraft. Later, two additional sequences were set aside--82855/82857 and 83992/84027.

Twenty-four B-17Gs (including one B-17F that had been modified to G standards) were used by the Navy under the designation PB-1W. The W stood tor anti-submarine warfare. A large radome for an ASP-20 search radar was fitted underneath the fuselage, and additional internal fuel tanks were added for longer range. These planes were painted dark blue, a standard Navy paint scheme which had been adopted in late 1944. Most of these planes were Douglas-built aircraft, flown directly from the Long Beach factory to the Naval Aircraft Modification Unit in Pennsylvania during the summer of 1945, where the APS-20 search radar was fitted. However, the war ended before any PB-1Ws could be deployed, and the defensive armament was subsequently deleted.

The first few PB-1Ws went to VBP-101 in April of 1946. The PB-1W eventually evolved into an early-warning aircraft by virtue of its APS-20 search radar. By 1947, PB-1Ws had been deployed to units operating with both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. VPB-101 on the East Coast was redesignated VX-4 and assigned to NAS Quonset Point in Rhode Island. VX-4 became VW-2 in 1952 and transferred to NAS Patuxent River in Maryland. VW-2 had the primary mission of early warning, with a secondary mission of antisubmarine warfare and hurricane reconnaissance. VW-1 was established in 1952 with four PB-1Ws at NAS Barbers Point in Hawaii. Elements of VW-1 were drawn from VC-11 at NAS Miramar and VP-51 at NAS San Diego. VW-1 had a mission similar to that of VW-2.

PB-1Ws continued in service until 1955, gradually being phased out in favor of the Lockheed WV-2, a military version of the Lockheed 1049 Constellation commercial airliner. PB-1Ws were retired to the Naval Aircraft Storage Center at Litchfield Park, Arizona. They were stricken from inventory in mid-1956 and many were sold as surplus and ended up on the civil register. 13 of them were sold as scrap.

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b17_19.html