To: skeeter
The first metal clad American bomber. That's how close we are to the dawn of the age of aviation. My father flew 50 missions in B-17's over Axis-controlled Europe. Even though he was a purebred Swede, he never liked cold weather after that. B-17's didn't have central heating, and it got damn cold at 23,000 feet.
To: hinckley buzzard
The first metal clad American bomber.Perhaps 'first metal clad heavy bomber.
B-18 was ahead of it.
31 posted on
06/13/2011 7:12:45 PM PDT by
PAR35
To: hinckley buzzard
The Martin B-10 was the first all-metal monoplane bomber to go into regular use by the United States Army Air Corps, entering service in June 1934.
34 posted on
06/13/2011 7:18:50 PM PDT by
narses
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