
B-17F "Memphis Belle" 1/48 Kit
- Structural details on surface - cockpit with instrument panel - bombsight and seat - rotating MG turret - movable MG ball turret under the fuselage - MGs mounted in side windows - detailed main undercarriage - movable propeller - 2 bombs on external pylons Decals for the Memphis Belle and another USAF version: - Boeing B17F-10-BO Flying Fortress Mephis Belle , uf 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn, U.K., May 1943 - Boeing B17F-10-BO Flying Fortress of 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group at Thurleigh, U.K., Spring 1943 During World War II, the Boeing B-17 was the best-known heavily armed strategic bomber, although with a total build of 12,677 it was far from the most numerous plane of its type. It kept the name Flying Fortress that it received from an American journalist at the time of its first flight. The Boeing B-17F was the first mass-produced Flying Fortress. The most famous plane of this series was the B-17F-10-BO made by Boeing which on 15th July 1942 was deli