As featured in Masters of the Air. Join me in this walkaround tour of a B-17G Flying Fortress in Tucson, Arizona. This WW2 heavy bomber was probably the most important bomber of the war and it an incredible piece of military aviation engineering.

Museum: 390th Memorial Museum inside the PIMA Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ. Website: http://www.390th.org/
This aircraft: https://390th.org/learn-about-390th/b...

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0:00 intro
0:50 nose
1:30 communication and navigation equipment
1:48 bombay
2:16 landing gear
2:50 Wright R-1820-97 "Cyclone" turbosupercharged radial engines and wing
4:54 ball turret
6:16 waist gunner
6:40 tail gunner
8:11 entering inside
8:50 tail gunner position from inside
10:07 two waist gunner positions
11:30 radio operator position
12:05 bombay cat walk
12:30 flight engineer position
13:17 captain's position
14:35 copilot's seat
15:30 navigator's position
16:25 bombardier's position