"Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress"
                    by  Gene Lacy - DataWings
                         Jan. 12, 1993

     The B-17 served the U.S. from 1939 to 1944 with over 12,000
of the various models produced.  Only a handful remain flying today.

"SOLID MODEL" techniques are used to keep any (bleed through) to an
absolute minimum.

     Firing guns and dropping bombs:

          Want yo strafe your local field to clear the pattern, drop
bombs on your boss's golf course or just to raise a little havoc over
your noisy nieghbors? You'll need to borrow your armaments from the WWI
ace game in your entertainment mode.  Refer to your FS4 manual for WWI
ace game start up. 
          Once your in position at the battle front airfield
in "cardboard mountain" country in your sopwith camel, go to your
aircraft library menu and select the Boeing B-17, or any of your other
aircraft and [ESC] back to the front line.  Next, go to your Nav menu
#5 to the position set option and plug in the coordinants of the field
you want to fly from (set alt to zero just to be safe).  [ESC] out of
the menu screen.  You're now ready for take off with a full load of
bombs and enough ammo to assume complete right-of-way in the pattern!
Refer once again to your FS4 manual for keystrokes to fire the guns
and drop the bombs.

      Files included:

          B-17.txt     -  This file!
		
          B-17.afx     -  Model kit for the B-17.  Provide a subdirectory
					 for this file under your AAF directory.
          B-17____     -  Place these (2) ready to fly files in your
          B-17____.sim    FS4 directory.
          Fortress.sim -  Put this source file in your FS4 directory. AAF
                          will use this file when you update the B-17.

Flight facts:  B-17 "Flying Fortress"

Manufacturer:  Boeing Aircraft Corp. 
Country:       United States of America
Type:		10 seat heavy bomber
Engine: 		(4) 1,200 hp Wright R-1820-97 piston engines
Performance:	Maximum speed, 302 mph at 25,000 ft; climb to 20,000 ft
			in 37 minutes, sevice ceiling 35,600 ft, range 3,400 miles.
Weight:		Empty 36,135 lb, maximumtake-off 72,000 lbs.
Dimensions:	Span 103 ft 9 in, length 74 ft 9 in., height 19 ft 1 in.
Armaments:	(13).5-in machine guns and up to 17,600 lbs of bombs


Note:	The flight model of Mallard's Sound and Graphics Upgrade P-51 was
used as the original flight model for this B-17, adjusted and renamed as
Fortress.sim for AAF processing.
	
     	This AAF model is presented from the DataWings aircraft library by
Gene Lacy for your personal enjoyment and to keep the memories of these
fine WWII warbirds flying.


          This one's great to sit back and watch from the tower.  Set your
external view to full-screen and using the "Flypal" from Charles Gulick, set
AGL [a] active and enjoy your warbird flyby from the ground!

                         "Flypal"  Charles Gulick  -  71241,321
                                   2810-East Ashley Drive
                                   West Palm Beach, FL 33415
                                   Phone: 1-407-642-7704
		
Enjoy!

Gene Lacy  -  70571,2047
DataWings
9015 Puritan Way
Rosharon, TX 77583
(713)431-1079	

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