Warbird Information Exchange

Found this little film on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BlJ4me-BTk

But: where is the B-24 nose wheel, where is the B-17 tailwheel? Is this an early form of filmshopping? Does anyone know the full story?

Tillerman.

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I think this may be legit. I seem to remember reading and seeing a picture of this once before. I think the idea was to add more armor/ armament to a B-24 so they swapped a B-17G front end on.

My guess is that the person happened to be standing infront of the tail wheel.

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I think its got a nosewheel, you just can't see it in the video.

Steve G

Yes you can, its right behind the chin turret.

It's legit, I've seen pics of it somewhere.

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... e2c988206d

Here is a story of why it was tried
http://www.unrealaircraft.com/hybrid/B17G.php

Would make for an interesting scale model!

Tim

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i don't think it looks bad at all. i wonder how it flew?? was it just the 1, or were a few others made as well??

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http://www.unrealaircraft.com/hybrid/B17G.php

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Looks like some of the problems this hybrid was intended to resolve were addressed by Consolidated in the B-32.