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Title: What plane is this?
Post by: davidpt40 on December 12, 2003, 04:44:03 PM

(http://www.wildlandfire.com/pics/air/b17.jpg)

Title: What plane is this?
Post by: ra on December 12, 2003, 04:50:37 PM

B-17.

Title: What plane is this?
Post by: MajorDay on December 12, 2003, 05:12:56 PM

Could be possible older model Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress?"

Title: What plane is this?
Post by: Arlo on December 12, 2003, 05:32:58 PM

Of course it's a B-17 (the JPEG properties kinda give that away ;)) but I don't think I'd call it an "older model." Nor do I think they had a model that had the plexiglass nose and gunner positions eliminated and streamlined and the bombay modified to drop fire retardant chemicals on forrest fires during WWII.

Title: What plane is this?
Post by: MiloMorai on December 12, 2003, 05:46:19 PM

It is not an older B-17 which is clearly seen by the shape of the fin.

Here is a photo of a PB4Y that has had its nose changed by grafting on an old B-24 nose. I watched this a/c take off from Grey Bull, Montana during the fires in 2000.

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/aerostuff/IMAGES/cdf121.jpg

Even DC-4s have been used as water bombers. There is 2 Martin Mars flying boats based on Vancouver Island that are used to fight forest fires.

Title: What plane is this?
Post by: MajorDay on December 12, 2003, 05:49:49 PM

Well lol, it look like older B-17 model, but i was wrong then lol

Title: What plane is this?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 13, 2003, 12:58:55 AM

That is B17G 44-83785 in the last air tanker scheme it wore for Evergreen Aviation in the 1980s as N207EV.  It had a history with the CIA as well

It is one of the finest restored B17s flying these days, still with the Evergreen Museum

http://www.armyairforces.com/b-17restored-4483785.asp

Old Airwarrior types will remember that this was the 17 that one well known player claimed to own, and who had folks believing it for quite some time

Dan/Slack
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