can a b17 fly on 3 engines
There are at least 6 current ground up restoration to fly projects underway now. Below are some interesting facts about this magnificent aircraft. Considering that this exact variant never really flew in WW2, I think I’ll opt to mourn the loss without guilt. B-52s been flying 60+ years and expected to fly another 20+. Most likely not multiple times per week as the pilots did during wartime. A replica B17 though would likely use different engines and be built using modern airliner techniques for reasons of practicality. Yep, although in MOST cases it needs to be a turbine engine. (Go listen for yourself.) Many such planes returned to base after all sorts of abuse during the war, but part of that was because the pilots and flight engineers would get together and talk shop and I bet they knew all the quirks and tricks and arcane hacks to limp one of these birds home _because_ they compared notes and remembered each other’s tricks and stories. It has 4 engines because it needs them for its optimal performance. Experiments on this aircraft led to the use of a quartet of General Electric turbo-superchargers which would become standard on the B-17 line. Anything is possible with enough money and dedication. I have been in many a ww2 plane thru the years, and I trusted my life with the pilots and crews ability to handle these aircraft with skill. 4. In it’s absence the fight to take back mainland Europe would have been protracted greatly or not have happened at all. I have flown in and flown the show “Memphis belle” as the air show director. now you just are being dumb. I’ve helped wash…and sat up front and thought wishful thoughts. So maybe that’s why it couldn’t stay aloft. Spellbound by the sight of several .35 caliber machine guns fixed all over the plane, “Flying Fortress” was a description that sprang to his mind, and indeed, it was a fitting name. Each engine has a tracked life and when certain trends start, such as unusual metal content, silicon, or carbon, it allows the oil lab to predict an engine failure. The NTSB has indicated that they have dispatched a team to investigate the crash, and say that a preliminary report is likely two weeks away. But yeah, lets go with the idea that all weapons are bad all the time and we should just stick our heads in the sand when Nazi are kill us off. ! It was a fantastic experience. i bet the ntsb will recommend grounding significantly antiquated aircraft, ban them from carrying passengers, require more stringent inspections, etc. Jack Bally's incredible 1/3 scale B-17 next to a Cessna 140! With respect, you are clearly out of your depth and don’t understand the situation. Just the day before, Seattle Times reporter Richard Williams had been lucky enough to see the heavily armored aircraft. Does this plane even have hydralics? Liberty Belle was almost completely destroyed by fire back in 2011, and it is being reconstructed. I mean it is entirely gone…. Sincerely journeyman aircraft mechanic Dennis Chalut. Fuel does spread when released from its containers. A great experience, a great loss. 15) This B-17 sustained a mid-air collision with a German BF-109, yet managed to fly home and land in this condition without major injuries to any of the crew members. Best if this article had simply been set aside to wait for the NTSB investigation report. Read another story from us: B-24 “Hot Stuff” – The Forgotten Bomber That Broke the Memphis Belle’s Record First. First reports mentioned that the plane didn’t seem to be able to gain altitude, and my reaction was “with 3 engines and no payload, that shouldn’t have been a problem”. Everything you need to know about the Draco crash is here, from the mouth of the owner and pilot himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfctWAoDXvs Short story, it was 100% pilot error. ... What makes the b-52 bomber fly? A pilot also commented that the fuel is a low octane and in WWII the fuel was a much higher octane to produce more power. You will find if the oil is performing and life expectancy. They actually did an engine swap on this exact aircraft when there were at my local airport (ORH – Worcester) a couple years ago. There isn’t much to the fuselage. I believe they are going to rebuild an extinct Pennsylvania railroad steam engine known as a T1. AWAIT THE NTSB REPORT. I too was on this very plane in 2018, and agree that the Collings Foundation looked like a first class operation, and this plane appeared to be in great shape at that time. They were nicknamed “Aphrodite Missiles.”. I wish I’d realized the Belle was up in Ohio back when I was living in Kentucky, I wouldn’t have minded getting to see her now that I’m an adult haha. There’s probably more going on than just an engine failure. They did not have special skills, there was no time for training. Three downed B-17s were also repaired and restored to flying status by the Japanese. Denture Synth, OLED Keycaps, And SNES Raytracing, Bare-Metal STM32: Exploring Memory-Mapped I/O And Linker Scripts, New Part Day: Hackboard 2, An X86 Single-Board Computer, Netscape Communicator And SHA-1 Written Into Brexit Agreement. Out of only four Black Widows that remain, it will be the only one that will fly. My heart is with all. And stop the speculation already let the investigators do there job. Lots of shiny aluminum everywhere! The tooling was recycled a long time ago. And shot full of holes to boot. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. About 40 B-17s were captured and modified by the Luftwaffe to suit their specific needs. The same can be said about the Boeing 747. It’s thin aluminum sheet riveted into a box structure to give it strength. so why is the fuselage practically nonexistant? Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago. Its last flight was during a reconnaissance mission on the 14th of August 1942. Just because it’s old doesn’t mean that it’s any less airworthy than any other aircraft. I think it was the Texas Raiders from the Commemorative Air Force. Look up TF-51. Simple math and war history tells you that those pilots had way more experience flying that bird than any wartime pilot. Looks like as they’ve gone through every part, they’ve been taking absolutely every bit of it apart, only re-using pieces that have no sings of corrosion, cracking, or bending. Neil Mundt has added a new log for Witches Brew V1.3 CV Joystick Controller. Now that is the best idea I ever heard ! The pilot had over 7300 hours in the B-17. Since my desk faced the window, I looked through the window at the street below, and didn’t see anything out of the ordinary down there. A single engine failure in a B-17 is an annoyance, not an emergency. I haven’t got a clue how statistics really work so I’ll have to ask you to stop writing about air-worthy machines. It is this exceptional design that has kept them working in the hands of unskilled tinkerers over the decades. A dumb question, usually the fuel tanks are in the wings…. The first B-17D flew on February 3, 1941. Lockheed-Martin had one of their older test pilots who was in his 60’s and overweight fly the first F-22 from Georgia to CA. Lets all take a breath and mourn the loss of life and the plane, answers will come later. Also, without all the engineering detail (EG material specs, treatments, calculations etc.) I have watched several videos of the crew(s) that fly this particular B-17. Now you can argue that losing the engine made for a more stressful landing, and that caused the crew to make a mistake, but that’s still ultimately falls under operator error. However, by a long margin, crews of the Boeing aircraft have received more Medal of Honor awards than those of any other American aircraft. If p is the probability with which an engine fails and you assume that engines fail … Myles has updated the project titled globe RGB. “There’s also absolutely no reason to believe the crash happened due to the age of the plane, or even a hardware failure.”. A 14th aircraft, the YB-17A, originally destined for groun… Got my vote, but not easy. This is a name given to a B-17 Flying Fortress which had gone head-on against a German Bf 109 aircraft several feet above the ground in Tunisia. They would sell tickets for an about 30min flight or so. In short, these guys were very good. I extend my sympathies. News also reported that the plane veered to the right of the runway… I’d be leaning toward loss of hydraulics on right control surfaces just before touchdown… Loss of lift and drop on right wing with not enough time to recover…. Add to that the seemingly endless rivets that someone needs to drive, and the many specialized third party assemblies that haven’t been manufactured in more than 70 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPmZ85xn5M I had the privilege of spending a day or two a week in the ATC cab at PSP. The people that go through these planes, service them and fly them know them like the back of their hands. Wow! The flight controls on a B-17 are not hydraulic, but operated by cables directly from the yoke and rudder pedals. Yes it can. I got out of there post haste, and watched it taxi by. That’s enough power for someone to take a seat in and take off! I believe those were tanks of deicing fluid. It won’t catch catastrophic failures if it relates to structural or external engine components, but it could have saved a lot of lives when there are “unknown” circumstances for crashes in private aviation. Or maybe write about planes of your “favourite” choice of government ;). RIP. I agree on the 3 engines.Really just would be a a little stick and rudder comp but i was really suspecting fuel contamination obut we will wait till we get findings.Climb out on 3 should not been much of an issue. That will be something the lawyers rightly or wrongly pounce on. While only 42 model "D"swere built, by the time of Pearl Harbor the existing "C" models hadbeen upgraded to "D" specifications. Daniel has updated the log for Bare metal second core on ESP32. I know if it was this bird but a few weeks ago (KLAF) I heard an unmistakable rumble and looked up to see a B17 with condensate not smoke pouring out of #4 then it stopped and all was beautiful. 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Please visit one of these flying museums and be impressed. I can’t even begin to imagine the sound that a flight of 1,000 of those planes would have made. Yes, we’d loose something magical to have these things grounded, but failures happen in all forms of mechanical things, so at some point we’re going to loose every last one to crashes if they keep flying. Still a tragic loss of life. However, in its day, many pilots compared it with the B-24 and declared their preference for the B-17 owing to its stability and durability. The airplanes were designed to be built by these unskilled workers. An expedited return to the field to the field was initiated. Pilot error, pilot error, pilot error. …But I wasn’t there, I’m not a pilot, and not the NTSB…. Join us for an unforgettable experience aboard one of the few remaining airworthy B-17s in the world. This was an operation which involved flying unmanned bomber aircraft into highly fortified, bomb-resistant targets. Years ago it was 3500 an hour for the plane…dry….and you had to fly with the owners instructor (based on the other side of the US). you can make a part that is identical in every way but might fail in operation because you didn’t know they did some heat-treatment to it in production. Maybe a stupid idea, but why not build a copy of these machine for airshow and keep the “real” one safe inside a hangar ? Volunteer . The vintage bomber (civilian registration number N93012) has been all but completely destroyed in the fire, with only a section of the wing and tail remaining recognizable. Nonsense! However, from safety point of view, it is not that dangerous if one engine … Maybe put a pause on plane articles for a while. MAAM is “rebuilding” a P-61 that when done is expected to have at least 70% of its airframe newly constructed. End result: the first copy would cost a good portion of a stealth fighter. My mind had trouble believing what my eyes were seeing. This can happen even with 4 engines running, but is worse with 3. About 640,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Nazi Germany and its territories by the B-17, a significant percentage of the 1.5 million tons dropped in all sorties against Nazi Germany. Daniel has updated the project titled Bare metal second core on ESP32. A 5-engine plane can fly on 3 engines but not on 2, while a 3-engine plane can fly on 2 engines but not 1. However, this mission was largely unsuccessful. B-17 bomber and step back in time to the World War II era. The B-17s have long been decommissioned. As a matter of fact, they do fly multiple times a week. Lo and behold there was a partly assembled B-17 undergoing a frame-out restoration, along with the front half of a B-29. First Mike Patey’s Draco and now a this B17.. I’ve been driving back and forth to Atlanta for work for years now, and finally took the time to duck off of 75 and check out the museum in Warner Robins. While it’s not quite the same with these planes getting past 75+ years old I can see it happening, just like they now display reproduction WWI aircraft at airshows, how they will build new B-17s I don’t know but if there is demand they will. How long until we say farewell to this part of our history, with the final flight of a B-17, or its kin? Details about the cause of the crash are still scarce, but from radio communication between the crew and tower, it’s understood the B-17 was having having issues with the number 4 engine, which was seen sputtering and smoking by a witness. Easily demonstarted: Put an empty beer can into a good burning campfire and it will “vanish” (turn to ashes, aluminium oxide). Again, it’s always possible that it wasn’t related, but the odds are very much against that. And then you might have epa concerns about exhaust pollution. 6153A-18, blade angle range 21° - 88° at 42" radius. One engine going down seems to be no problem, but when two go down it seems like the plane is just barely not powerful enough to stay airborne. The aircraft went through several alterations in each of its design stages and variants. Formation flying in 4-engine airplanes presents greater problems than formation flying in smaller aircraft. Same for the wooden forms to make the tooling. 5. A group brought a B-17 (possibly 909 but I can’t recall for sure) and B-24 to Gainesville for an airshow some years back. Are you kidding? They were doing a sweep of several local airports, as the plane made it’s way up to the Dayton, Ohio air show later that month. My uncle Ray LeDoux, was a navigator on DeLancey’s B-17. They thought it was great. A twin-engine aircraft can fly perfectly well on one engine. It’s strange that one out of four engines out would lead to a crash though. An emergency was not declared to ATC. Something happened, and the pilots weren’t able to recover. But, it really was a B-17, and it really was making a simulated bomb run on the building. 3. Unfortunately the aircraft ran off the runway and struck a building, after which it burst into flames. The FAA report will clear that up for sure (Aviation authorities are very good at this – someone I know crashed which sadly killed him, and the whole engine was put back together to find out exactly what had happened – and this was only a 2-seater!). But even then, incidents can happen. Yep thank you for clarifying it for me. Machines like this is what helped rid of the Nazis and end WW2, the Fordson tractor helped feed the soldiers that finished the job. The idea that the B-17 is too complex to maintain in this day and age seems a bit naive given the aircraft flying today. The only way to save such a B17 is to take manual control and fly it yourself. Early versions proved to be more vulnerable to fighter attack than anticipated, but, by the time the B-17E version began to go into service shortly before the United States entered the war in 1941, the plane was equipped with turrets in the upper fuselage, belly, and tail. BTW, my pop was a navigator on B29, pacific. 3: All engines during that time period rotated counter-clockwise (from the pilots perspective) with the russians being the exceptions (excluding foreign license produced engines) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTxPEPyEiw The Germans incurred heavy losses too but nevertheless won in this instance. To report on acceptance performance tests conducted at the manufacturer's plant on the B-17E airplane, A.C. No. :D. Same thing happened with that crazy powerful STOL aircraft named Draco. Was not impressed with flight-deck coordination, much chagrined by the non-professional demeanor, and appalled by the poor radio discipline. I was walking from the tower back to the FBO when I heard a loud rumbling from behind. But, the net result is that there can often be raw fuel blown through the engine and into the exhaust manifold, which subsequently ignites. Tragedy on many levels – terrible loss of life and injury, and loss of a true piece of history. Don’t worry, it won’t be long before you can 3D print one. This was well before 9/11, mind you. On some of them, upon starting, they open the valves to remove the pressure so the starter can get the engine turning with less power/resistance. About a dozen of these downed planes were successfully put back into the air and were used by the Nazis against the Allies. Neil Mundt has updated the project titled Witches Brew V1.3.1 CV Joystick Controller. About 25 B-17s were loaded with around 20,000lb of bombs and were modified into drones. I’ve been in that plane (on the ground, 5 years ago in Worcester, MA). How often did the crew of this plane fly? It’s not a real good idea to be standing behind one of those piston-powered planes when they start up. Hey guys, I recently re-discovered this game after a long time not playing it. A B-52 has 8 TF33-P-3 turbofan engines. We did not get the flare - fog was over the target, and we would have to wait for the clearing of the river fog. I’ll never forget that experience. So sad that people died, happy that some survived. That movie was great, thanks for your contribution. A sad day for War Bird aviation for sure. Just the day before, Seattle Times reporter Richard Williams had been lucky enough to see the heavily armored aircraft. During a second evaluation flight, the B-17 experienced some mechanical issues while airborne. (Wikipedia is not authoritative.) It’s rather sad that, out of the 12,731 built, only 9 are still in flying condition. flyable replicas are a thing for a lot of smaller warbirds, though idk about bombers. The preliminary report says engine #4 was feathered and #3 was “partially feathered” and it’s not clear why #3 was. This was a good demonstration of the durability of the Flying Fortress which managed to fly back to base without falling apart after the severe collision. Right. I feel deeply effected by this. Something flammable? Facts: I saw a few more fly overs that day, but none that dramatic. That young, experienced, war tested pilots could fly a B-17 with multiple engines out does not mean old(er) pilots with far less current experience should be able to handle smaller failures with comparable success. It looked very well taken care of, and Collings is a good, dedicated bunch of people. But, the rumbling kept getting louder. The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to time one will crash. To avoid that problem that a flight of a true piece of.... 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