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special ed
2nd Lieutenant
- 5,297
- May 13, 2018
Beans and beer for breakfast.
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
Electronic Test Bed.... ETB-17G, now flown as Sally B, based at Duxford. There are other photos out there with different configurations on that wingtip.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Looks like a P-38 cockpit on that B-17's wingtip 
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Specially designed for ferrying Groundhog pilots to their operational fields, in order that the B-17 crew didn't have to put up with the constant BS spouted by such pilots ........
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
You should double post this so I can give you bacon as well!
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Just found some info about the B-17G s/n. 44-85784 - it seems that there were two pods installed.
The Starboard pod was a manned gunner position and the port pod had remote-controlled weapons.
They were testing possible turret systems for the XB-52.
The Starboard pod was also occupied by doctors doing research on the effects of having a person in such a position on an aircraft, similar to their experiments with a cockpit mounted on one of the P-38's booms in order to test assymetric pilot/crew stations (like the P-82, for example).
The Starboard pod was a manned gunner position and the port pod had remote-controlled weapons.
They were testing possible turret systems for the XB-52.
The Starboard pod was also occupied by doctors doing research on the effects of having a person in such a position on an aircraft, similar to their experiments with a cockpit mounted on one of the P-38's booms in order to test assymetric pilot/crew stations (like the P-82, for example).
Saturn5tony
Recruit
- 3
- Jan 2, 2019
Given Covid issues now, I think it is a social distancing situation. lol
