B-17 'Mizpah' after 88mm flak rounds ripped its nose off over Budapest, July 14 1944. Pilot kept it flying 10 mins so the crew could bail out.

SSTF · 2 months ago

urandom · 2 months ago

Wait. So the front fell off?

zergtoshi · 2 months ago

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

redhorsejacket · 2 months ago

I just don’t want people thinking bombers aren’t safe.

Lovable Sidekick · 2 months ago

They had to fly it out beyond the environment.

Codpiece@feddit.uk · 2 months ago

No, it wasn’t built by Boeing.

Lovable Sidekick · 2 months ago

wut? Probably was. Boeing designed the B-17 and built more than half of them.

Codpiece@feddit.uk · 2 months ago

Ok, that’ll teach me to try and be amusing without doing research.