- 2.5 metal sheets
- Challenging difficulty
- Illustrated instructions
- Assembled Size: 6.9 x 5.3 x 1.5 inches
- Item does not come assembled
- Ages 14 and up
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B-17 Flying Fortress was a World War II heavy bomber. Its turbo-supercharged radial engines gave it the necessary high-altitude performance to fly above the effective range of antiaircraft artillery.
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Seventy-five years after the B-17's first flight, an 88-year-old veteran sent the Boeing Company a letter. After explaining how he returned to England after a bombing raid over Germany with 179 flak holes in his airplane and only two out of the four engines working, he wrote: "I'm glad to be alive. Thank you for making such a good airplane."