On Apr 6, 1:54*am, Nightjar wrote:
On 03/04/2012 17:49, David E. Powell wrote:

On Apr 3, 1:18 am, Bill *wrote:
wrote:
So, by then, the B-17 crews had figured out that high altitude level
bombing of moving ships wasn't working out very well?

Did anyone ever try equipping the B-17 with torpedoes?

Well, sorta.

http://tinyurl.com/7sr3lmu

Thank you! If this was 1940 than this stuff is huge! It's huge either
way, but wow!

The GT-1 does not seem to have been tested until 1943, so the caption
has to be wrong. The British Toraplane, a similar air launched gliding
torpedo was around in 1940*, but, of course, that would not have been
launched from a B-17.

* Work started in 1939 but was abandoned in 1942, as it proved to be
very inaccurate.

Colin Bignell

Similar objects, (encased flying torpedos), were tried on Zeppelin
L-35 (LZ-80) during secret experiments in 1918 at Jueterbog (S. of
Berlin). Accuracy was said to be a problem then as well.