BOEING B-17G FLYING FORTRESS, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, JUNE 27, 2009
Pentax K10D
SMC Pentax-F* 300mm f4.5 ED (IF)
1/500 sec. f9.5
ISO 400
Another shot of the B-17 from yesterday as she returned from a 45-minute mission carrying passengers (at $400 a crack; those four 1,200-horsepower radial engines gulp expensive aviation gasoline at an alarming rate). The nose art replicates that on the original Aluminum Overcast, shot down over France in 1944 on her 34th mission. Click the photo for a large detailed version.
1 comment:
I had thought later B-17s were left bare aluminum instead of being painted olive drab. Your B-17 does not have shiny alumimum skins.
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