page_title: Gondola (airplane)
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Gondola (airplane) / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Early B-17D at Wright Field. The "D" model was the last B-17 series to have a small "shark-fin" tail and underside "bathtub" gun position. (U.S. Air Force photo)
context_page_description: Gondola is the general term for the usually-armored ventral casemate-style positions used on many World War II-era military bomber aircraft, especially on German designs, where they were usually known as Bodenlafette, often shortened to Bola.
  Gondolas were either used to house a gunner or a bombardier.
context_section_description: Examples of gondolas on World War II military aircraft:
caption: B-17D Flying Fortress of 1940, having its "bathtub" gondola in virtually the same location as the He 111H
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