B 17 airplane coloring pages serial number#

This aircraft was later assigned to the 510 Bomb Squadron / 351 Bomb Group and given the name “Chatterbox II” by her crew.

B 17 airplane coloring pages serial number#

A similar photograph but a later variant, this is B-17G-60-BO serial number 42-102955. 30 caliber machine gun is mounted in the lower right of the nose glazing, four additional mounting sockets are visible in the photograph. The armor behind the bombardier’s seat is primed. The Navigator’s table in the left foreground appears to be black enamel on an aluminum frame on this Fortress. (All photos credit Boeing unless otherwise noted) The nose compartment of the B-17E again, this time looking forward. Note that no structural ribbing is visible, and the details of the upholstered canvas covering the rear bulkhead. Note the armor plate behind the bombardier’s seat, and his yellow seat cushion. An unpainted (not red) fire extinguisher is mounted to the aft bulkhead. This compartment is completely covered in the sound-deadening insulation. Link to Part III here: Looking aft into the nose of a B-17E, the bombardier’s seat is in the foreground, the navigator sat in a seat behind him facing the port side of the aircraft. Interior components were provided from numerous subcontractors, so there can be some variations in details and finishes. Walkways were covered in a rubber non-slip material. Fire extinguishers were left in natural metal.

Radio equipment and instrument panels were black.

These were covered in two coats of varnish and were often left unpainted, especially in later production.

Plywood was used to fabricate many interior structures such as ammo boxes, the navigator’s table, compartment doors, and walkways.

If you have rib detail showing on a Fortress interior, it should be natural aluminum. Later production Fortresses reduced or omitted this covering in the nose and radio compartments. Crews often removed the batting in theater, the underlying airframe was left unprimed in natural Aluminum. This was covered with neatly upholstered Dark Green or Olive Drab canvas cloth. Early B-17s had insulative batting for noise reduction installed in the nose compartment, flight deck, and radio compartments.The cockpit area should be Bronze Green (FS 14058 but a little darker) or Dull Dark Green (FS 34092).This includes the entire fuselage interior (except for the flight deck), wheel wells, cowling interiors, bomb bays, bomb racks, landing gear (on uncamouflaged aircraft) and the inside surface of the bomb bay doors. Paint everything Aluminum unless otherwise noted.The second section will be variations from these specifications, along with details and colors of some of the installed equipment.ī-17 Interior Color Summary from T. This first section will present the official specifications from Technical Order 01-20EF-2 B-17F Airplane Erection and Maintenance Instructions, and official Boeing factory photographs of production aircraft which reflect the specified standards. I’m going to present the information on B-17 interior colors in two parts. We then carry these errors on to our models, further reinforcing the mistake because it matches what we have seen either in person or in reference books. This has resulted in lots of “Interior Green” inside of the aircraft where it was not used in actual production. This is actually a mixed blessing for modelers, while you can get a good feel for the layout and structure of the Flying Fortress, many (if not most) restorations paint the aircraft with preservation as the priority instead of accuracy. There are even a few of these pictures on this blog. The Boeing B-17 remains a popular aircraft and there are a lot of photographs out there of restored B-17s, both on the Warbird circuit and in museums. So with that in mind here is some information on B-17 interior colors for anyone wanting to model a Flying Fortress. Writing things down here helps with all that, and if you guys can use this information too then saving you time is a bonus. On several occasions I have revisited a topic later only to find that I can’t remember why I thought a particular component was a certain color or when the wheel tread pattern changed on the landing gear. One of the reasons for starting this blog was to have a place for collecting all the little details dug up while researching information to build a model and putting them in a single place where they can be organized and located again when needed, along with notes explaining what was found.