The B-17 is one of the favorites, if not the favorite WWII aircraft model to build. It’s hard to find a military aviation buff who hasn’t built at least one.

Famous aircraft: the B-17 Flying Fortress. Scale drawings: Richard Groh Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Object Details Author Birdsall, Steve Notes Cover title: The B-17 Flying Fortress. Date 1965 ...

Jack Bally decided to build a 1:3 scale replica of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in 1999. It finally took its first flight 17 years later.

Initially, Bally had wanted to make a scale replica of the B-24 Liberator but soon discovered it would be too hard to shrink down. He then turned his attention to the B-17.

The Bally Bomber B-17 is said to be exactly 1:3 scale of the real deal, save for having a slightly larger cockpit than it should. It's amazing to think that this plane started off as plans for a ...

A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented. Very often the scale model is smaller than the original and ...