[ARC5] More Moron-ities. This Will Turn

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Sun Oct 23 13:23:44 EDT 2011


On 23 Oct 2011 at 8:38, J. Forster wrote:

> >From Wiki:
> 
> "The B-17's armament consisted of up to 4,800 pounds (2,200 kg) of
> bombs on two racks in the bomb bay behind the cockpit, and five 0.30
> inches (7.62 mm) machine guns,"

And the only real reason the B-17 could not carry a greater weight of 
bombs was because of the configuration of the bomb-bay.

Ken W7EKB


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