B-17 Flying Fortress Premium Model Kit - 1/48 Scale WWII Bomber Aircraft for Collectors & Hobbyists - Perfect for Display, Gifts & Historical Dioramas

Product Description

• 2.5 metal sheets
• Challenging difficulty
• Illustrated instructions
• Assembled Size: 6.9 x 5.3 x 1.5 inches
• Item does not come assembled
• Ages 14 and up

• The B-17 Flying Fortress was a World War II heavy bomber. Its turbo-supercharged radial engines gave it the necessary high-altitude performance to fly above the effective range of antiaircraft artillery.

• Seventy-five years after the B-17's first flight, an 88-year-old veteran sent the Boeing Company a letter. After explaining how he had returned to England following a bombing raid over Germany with 179 flak holes in his airplane and only two out of the four engines working, he wrote: "I'm glad to be alive. Thank you for making such a good airplane."