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(More customer reviews)These were the only B-17's used for scheduled airlane passenger service. Indeed, the FAA had ruled that the B-17 could not be used for carrying passengers by American airlines. (I can't imagine why!)
When you see a B-17 in the movies it looks like it is a big airplane. When you see one in real life it is surprisingly small. Barely enough room in it for the waist gunners to stand up. As such, when converted to a passenger plane, it only held 14 passengers, fewer than a DC-3, and with four engines its fuel consumption was twice that of a DC-3. Only the general circumstances of World War II, when all aircraft were in high demand by the military did it make sense for a country like Sweden to convert bombers to passenger service. Only 7 planes were converted, making this a very unusual variant of the Flying Fortress.
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Many USAAF aircraft landed in neutral Sweden during World War II.The Swedish authorities arranged to buy many of these from the US, to supplement their limited and aging aircraft stocks.The B-17 Flying Fortress was selected for conversion to an airliner, and Saab undertook the work.This book tells, for the first time in English, the story of these aircraft and their subsequent careers, in Sweden, Denmark and France.No other B-17s were ever used as airliners, so this is a unique addition to the well-known history of the Fortress.
Illustrated with many photos, both contemporary and of surviving airframes, and with color profiles of the color schemes carried by these aircraft.Detailed plans of the modified airframes are included.
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