Joe Kennedy's B-24

A quick google revealed:

Fuel lines from each of the B-24's fuel tanks ran to a multi-valve manifold on a bulkhead above the bomb bay. Using a short length of flexible hose, the Flight Engineer could connect any two valves to transfer or crossfeed fuel. All these connections were very leak-prone!

Savvy B-24 crews flew with the bomb bay doors always cracked open to dissipate fumes, and forbad smoking in the aircraft.

My Granddad was maintenance officer of a PB4Y unit in WW2. When I was a boy he told me he was particarly proud that none of his squadron's Libs blew up!

David

are there pics of the project aphrodite aircraft? i would like to see the seventeens with the open cockpits.

seventeens with the open cockpits.<

The book APHRODITE: DESPERATE MISSION , Jack Olsen (G. P. Putnam's Sons 1970) has a couple of close up photos of Aphrodite B-17s. There are better photos also, but I can't recollect where I saw them.

CB

must see if the library interloan can get it. i saw one a long time ago of a very beat e or f with a cut down roof libe and white paint overspray. don't know if that was a test model or operational. gonna build one from a lindberg kit, i think.

I managed to find a couple photos of the BQ-7, but none of the BQ-8... I found them on a Russian aviation site, let me check where it was.

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