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Through participating narrative and first-person accounts, B-17 Soaring Fortress Repair captures the painstaking recovery of a global Battle II-vintage Boeing B-17 bomber by more than 100 volunteers in Pooler, GA. Aircraft restoration and military services aviation enthusiasts similarly can follow the airplane's voyage from the storage area hangers of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to the Fight Gallery of the Museum of the Mighty 8th Air Force, where it arrived in bits on the backs of four tractor-trailers. B-17 Soaring Fortress Repair charts the volunteer team's frustrations and successes over the six-year period as they cleaned out gathered crud from the bomber's areas and carefully recreated its light weight aluminum skin, os's, armament and even its nasal art. Furthermore, the booklet traces the histories of the two City of Savannah B-17s - the initial and the restored - and includes many personal reviews of veterans as informed independently or their own families. The City of Savannah volunteers brought a wide range of skills to the duty. They were airframe and electric power plant technicians, painters, aeronautical technical engineers, electrical engineers, people and administrators, a good former physics professor with a PhD and 30 years of soaring experience. Many were attracted to the project after their day jobs at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, LMI Aerospace, Inc., and the 165th Airlift Wing of the Georgia Air National Safeguard. Others were retired and wanting to make a long-term determination to restoring an antique warbird.
