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| Title | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in front of assembly building, Seattle, 1936 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1936 |
| Caption | The Army Air Corps ordered the first 13 B-17s in early 1936. The bomber took its maiden flight just 12 months later on December 2, 1936. At the peak of its production in 1944, the Seattle Boeing plant would complete 16 B-17s every 24 hours. The B-17 was known for its power, agility, and durability. One reporter wrote that the B-17 was "the largest and most deadly airplane ever built in the United States." The next generations of the B-17 changed World War II history. |
| Notes | This plane was known as the XB-15 by Boeing before being renamed the B-17 by the U.S. military. The B-17 Bomber was also known as Boeing B-17 and Flying Fortress br
Caption information source: Year By Year: 75 Years of Boeing History, 1916-1991; published Nov 1991.
Handwritten on image: Boeing Bomber XB-12
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): December 6, 1936 |
| Subjects | Airplanes—Washington (State)—Seattle ; B-17 bomber; Boeing Airplane Company; Bombers—Washington (State)—Seattle ; Factories—Washington (State)—Seattle |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)—Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.168.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original photograph as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
