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Airfix is to release in 2016 a B-17G Flying Fortress:

The new model will be completed as a late model B-17G and will include the significant modifications associated with this version of the aircraft. The kit will feature the Bendix chin turret, staggered nose and waist gunner’s positions, with the waist guns also benefitting from enclosed windows. During combat in earlier versions of the B-17, the waist gunners could often obstruct each other, as the gun positions were on opposite sides of the fuselage and they were fighting back-to-back, so staggering the gun positions certainly made operational sense.
The addition of the waist-gun windows would certainly have made the endeavours of the waist gunners a little less arduous and the general comfort of the crew a little more bearable. The final improvement was the addition of the ‘Cheyenne tail’, which was a much more capable defensive tail turret unit – this also had a very different profile from the previous ‘Stinger’ unit of the earlier B-17 versions and is extremely distinctive.

There is no doubting that this new B-17G tooling will be one of the most popular models in the entire Airfix range and many people will be very much looking forward to its arrival next year.

Photos courtesy Airfix web site.

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