B-17 Flying Fortress Yankee Lady Cockpit Metal Print

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Restored to an extremely high standard of craftsmanship, "Yankee Lady" is well-known on the North American air show circuit. As you will read below, she has been in a movie, too. Of the more than 12,000 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses built, nearly a third were lost in combat or other crashes, This beautiful survivor, one of a very small number of flyable B-17s in the world, was photographed at the annual (in June) Mid-Atlantic Aviation Museum air show in Reading, Pennsylvania.

History of Yankee Lady from the Web site of her home base, the Yankee Air Museum in Yspilanti, Michigan: B-17G-110-VE, N3193G, was delivered to the U. S. Army Air Corps as 44-85829, then transferred to the U. S. Coast Guard as PB-1G, BuNo 77255 in September 1946. It served at NAS Elizabeth City, North Carolina until May 1959. Ace Smelting Incorporated of Phoenix, Arizona bought it on May 11, 1959, gave it its current registration, then sold it to Fairchild Aerial Surveys of Los Angeles, California the...

Although I don't call myself a photographer, I have taken thousands of photos through the years and now and then I end up with one that is printworthy. Well, at least by my standards, which might be somewhat less than the norm. But you are the judge (continued below). PLEASE CLICK ON AD TO LEARN ABOUT THIS SITE I'm fortunate enough to have enjoyed a rather varied background in marketing, advertising, public relations, print and electronic media, TV production, and publication design in both corporate and non-profit organizations. As my list of photos on Fine Art America slowly grows, it should be apparent that my interests are all over the place, from the sight of beautiful flowers and landscapes to aviation and high performance...