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    B-17 crashes due to confusing controls - any info?

    Hi everyone I am new on here. I am doing some research on the history of the gear and flap controls. More specifically the incidents of crashes due to pilot confusing the gear and flap controls during landing in B17s. In 1942, Alphonso Chapanis interviewed pilots who had survived the...
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    B-29 Superfortress Gun System Controls?

    I've always been interested in the gun system on the B-29. I understand that they were all remotely controlled from a central aiming station, or stations. Does anyone have any good sources of information on just how they worked, how the aiming systems were interfaced, and how effective they...
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