Subject: B-17 Tail Structure
From: (Jinxx1)
Date: 11/14/03 3:12 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Does anybody know the reason why they changed the empennage on the early
B-17s?

For greater directional stability and to strengthen the vertical tail. I
think
the larger tail was first tried on later production B307s and then
retrofitted
to the earlier 307s before being used in B-17F production.

CB



Some guys I spoke to during the war who flew both the early andthe later
B-17's claimed that the earlier models just didn't have enough rudder.


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