num_pages: 104
description: Its full potential still not explored the model 299 crashed at Wright Field on 30 October 1935 on takeoff with the control locks inadvertently engaged. Much as the crash of the new XP-38 Lightning several years later did not kill that promising program so did the Flying Fortress outlive the demise of the prototype.
language: None
title: Boeing B-17-Flying Fortress - WarbirdTech Volume 7
publisher: Specialty Press