Frederick A Johnsen

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress- Warbirdtech Vol. 7 Frederick A Johnsen

The photos in this edition are black and white. Its full potential still not explored, the model 299 crashed at Wright Field on 30 October 1935 on takeoff, with the control locks inadvertently engaged. Much as the crash of the new XP-38 Lightning several years later did not kill that promising program, so did the Flying Fortress outlive the demise of the prototype.