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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away, if your car could go straight upwards
Echoing the experience of the Luftwaffe's KG 200 during the war, in the 1950s the CIA operated a number of unarmed black-painted B-17s over Indochina and, through the assistance of the Nationalist Chinese, mainland China. Little is known about their missions, but they were likely used for agent drops and intelligence-gathering.
Fortresses were also used for a variety of test programs, such as launch platforms for early missiles such as the "JB-2 Loon", which was a US-built V-1 "buzz bomb". Three B-17Gs were modified to be used as engine test platforms, with a piston or turboprop engine fitted into the nose; the B-17's cyclones were retained. Engines tested included the Pratt & Whitney XT-34 turboprop, which provided 4,100 kW (5,500 SHP), and the Wright XT-35 turboprop, which provided 3,730 kW (5,000 SHP). These engines were powerful enough to keep the B-17 flying with all other engines shut down and their propellers feathered. The XT-34 was so big that the B-17's cockpit had to be relocated back on the fuselage to accommodate it.
Dziś trochę przewrotnie. 1912, kiedy firma Short jeszcze robiła normalnie wyglądające samoloty
Było, było. Nawet Rutkov mnie objechał za dubla.
Wygląda może normalnie, ale sterowanie lotkami miał dość... osobliwe
