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What's powering that silver B17? Not the normal radials and they don't appear to have exhausts on the side closest to us which should rule out a V configuration.
Could it be a photoshop job?
More like a prototype, i think.
Edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing...lying_Fortress
Quote:
The XB-38 Flying Fortress was a single example conversion of a production B-17E Flying Fortress, testing whether the Allison V-1710 V type engine could be substituted for the standard Wright R-1820 radial engine during early World War II.
This camoflaged (<-sp??) one is "909"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-O-Nine
Whoa! That last one got big! Sorry - don't know how to make it smaller.
Here's a smaller one:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/11/602.jpg