Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress weapon damage test rig - photo

[Altair]

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress weapon damage test rig.

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Previously:

WWII Flying Fortress crash landing - video
B-29 Superfortress remote-controlled turret - GIF
WWII Martin B-26 Flak-Bait bomber - photo
WWII B-17 Phantom Fortress crewless landing - video
WWII B-17 Nine-O-Nine heavy bomber - photo

[Toolmaker51]

There is something about DT, destructive testing, that says more about quality than all the assurance - acceptance initiatives and quality managers combined.
Here we are, thrashing a fairly late war model B-17; while the Axis could no longer build a decent rifle.
Not only a plane, the entire rig, which consumed some war materiel, designers, construction crew, transport of the fuselage, just to start.