Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
type: Thing
type: Aircraft
type: Model airplane
type: TransportationDevice Vehicle
label: بوينغ بي-17 القلعة الطائرة @ar
label: B-17 Flying Fortress
label: B-17轟炸機 @zh
label: B-17 (航空機) @ja
label: Boeing B-17 @de
label: 보잉 B-17 플라잉 포트리스 @ko
subject: Category:Four-engined piston aircraft
subject: Category:1930s United States bomber aircraft
subject: Category:Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
subject: Category:Four-engined tractor aircraft
subject: Category:Aircraft first flown in 1935
subject: Category:Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
subject: Category:Boeing aircraft
subject: Category:Low-wing aircraft
length ft: 74
max speed kts: 249
prop blade number: 3
range nmi: 1738
prop name: Hamilton-Standard constant-speed propeller
eng1 kw: 895
cruise speed mph: 182
cruise speed kts: 158
eng1 name: Wright R-1820-97 "Cyclone"
max takeoff weight lb: 65500
span in: 9
ferry range mi: 3750
armament: * Guns: 13 × .50 in M2 Browning machine guns in 9 positions * Bombs: ** Short range missions; internal load only : 8,000 lb ** Long range missions; internal load only : 4,500 lb ** Max internal and external load: 17,600 lb
status: Retired; small number in service as warbirds
variants: Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress
variants: Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress
variants: Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress
m: 185.7
max takeoff weight kg: 29700
range note: bombload
range note: with
range note: 6000.0
empty weight kg: 16391
max speed kmh: 462
climb rate ms: 4.6
ceiling m: 10850
range km: 3219
gross weight kg: 24500
cruise speed kmh: 293
produced: 1936
length in: 4
image: Boeing Y1B-17 in flight.jpg
image: Boeing XB-17 .jpg
image: Boeing Model 299 crash.jpg
width: 220
ref: The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft
manufacturer: Boeing
developed into: Boeing 307 Stratoliner
see also: * Air warfare of World War II * Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress variants * B-17 Flying Fortress units of the United States Army Air Forces * Accidents and incidents involving the B-17 Flying Fortress
ceiling ft: 35600
max speed mph: 287
wing area sqm: 131.92
prime units?: imp
eng1 hp: 1200
lists: * List of bomber aircraft * List of aircraft of World War II * List of military aircraft of the United States
eng1 number: 4
height m: 5.82
eng1 type: turbosupercharged radial engines
primary user: United States Army Air Forces
length m: 22.66
gross weight lb: 54000
span m: 31.62
empty weight lb: 36135
range miles: 2000
sqft: 38
climb rate ftmin: 900
number built: 12731
mass: 0.089
introduction: April 1938
first flight: 1935-07-28
airfoil: NACA 0018 / NACA 0010