Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Major552 on July 20, 2008, 04:38:11 AM
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(http://i352.photobucket.com/albums/r342/Major552/3_49.jpg)
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...post war scheme?
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how about this one then
(http://i352.photobucket.com/albums/r342/Major552/3_59.jpg)
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Doesn't look like our model at all. Look up some info before you post, please.
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its a modified B-17G.....and thats what we have in game
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Second pic is still a Post-War Bird.
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Yep, no guns, no turrets, good radar. Not used as a bomber
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no i just want a skin of it
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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". :salute
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.
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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