EAA source told me it was pilot error, the jackscrew positions (which
can't be reversed by an impact) are an infallible marker and were
something like 70% extended.

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ...

Why not? Are you trying to say that the B-17 is so completely different
from other aircraft that a gear-up landing in a B-17 has absolutely NO
parallels with a gear-up landing in any other aircraft, no similarities at
all?

In that particular case, if I recall, there was a mechanical failure. But
until someone's actually investigated the cause, there would be no way to
know that.


Pete