B17E ‘Desert Rat’ March 2021 Restoration Update
B-17 #41-2595 / The Desert Rat: Delivered MacDill 28/2/42; 97BG Sarasota 29/3/42; Ogden 7/7/42; 383BG Ainsworth 19/3/43; Wright-Patterson Fd 17/8/43, modified in 1944 to XC-108A experimental cargo a/c, bomb doors were sealed shut, armament removed, solid hinged nose piece and a large cargo door cut into rear fuselage; this took 19,000 man hours and program halted for others.
B17E 'Desert Rat' June 2020 Restoration Update
Desert Rat, as Kellner and his team have re-dubbed her, will be the oldest Flying Fortress in the skies when she finally flies, although this record may eventually be surpassed by a B-17C which the team also has on the books.
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Nicknamed the "Desert Rat," this B-17E never actually flew over North Africa. Rather it had been accepted by the USAAF in February, 1942 and was assigned to the 97th Bomb Group as a crew.
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Desert Rat, as Kellner and his team have re-dubbed her, will be the oldest Flying Fortress in the skies when she finally flies, although this record may eventually be surpassed by a B-17C which the team also has on the books.
Boeing B17E Flying Fortress 'Desert Rat'
Its name is the "Desert Rat" and has been undergoing restoration for the last five years of its life. This incredibly famous WWII bomber plane had previously spent much of its time in a junkyard after the war. In just ten years, this incredible WWII relic should be completely restored to its original glory as one of America's most instantly.
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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II. Forty-five planes survive in complete form, [1] [a] including 38 in the United States. Fewer than 10 are airworthy . Of the 12,731 B-17s built, about 4,735 were lost during the war.
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The Desert Rat Wartime and conversion B-17E, serial number 41-2595, was the 203rd B-17E built by Boeing in Seattle, according to Aero Vintage Books. The aircraft was delivered to the U.S. Air Force on April 14, 1942 and immediately used in a training capacity, first assigned to the 97th Bomb Group, which was activated on Feb. 3, 1942.
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Desert Rat B17 2013 A man builds his own B17 Flying Fortress Restoration Update - YouTube "No one would let me fly their B17 so I built my own". Mike Kellner gives us an update on his.
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Intro Desert Rat B-17 E The 2019 Update RideswithChuck with Chuck Derer 26.2K subscribers 13K views 3 years ago I visited Desert Rat earlier this month for the 2019 update. The project is at.
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The Flying Fortess B-17 known as the "Desert Rat" was commissioned in 1942 and served a faithful tour of duty hauling troops, equipment and supplies in the States, Greenland and Asia. After decommissioning it was bought up for scrap and languished for decades in a scrap yard in Maine to slowly decompose back to Mother Earth. How did he get it home?
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B-17E Desert Rat Restoration Project, Marengo, Illinois. 14,528 likes · 798 talking about this. Bringing a rare B-17E model back to factory condition..
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Desert Rat B 17 e Flying Fortress restoration . Aluminum Overcast in cockpit take off. B17e RideswithChuck with Chuck Derer 26.5K subscribers Subscribe 194K views 12 years ago We sit in the.
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The restoration crew at Marengo, Illinois, working to restore B-17E 41-2595 (otherwise known as Desert Rat) continues to make steady, if slow, progress on the challenging effort. For those not familiar, this rare B-17E was recovered from a remote farm in Maine way back in 1985 by current owner and team leader Mike Kellner.
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A rare B-17E is slowly being brought back to life in an Illinois pole barn. When word came in June 2011 that Liberty Belle, one of the few still flyable Boeing B-17s, had burned after making an emergency landing in a cornfield near Aurora, Illinois, a sense of sadness and loss spread far beyond the warbird community.
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History of B-17E and XC-108A Desert Rat (Happily adapted from material in Final Cut: The Post-War B-17 Flying Fortress . B-17E s/n 41-2595 was the 203rd B-17E built by Boeing at Seattle, and was delivered to the AAF on April 14, 1942.