{"id":8362,"date":"2018-08-22T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/?post_type=b17database&#038;p=8362"},"modified":"2021-02-06T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T10:10:41","slug":"43-39137","status":"publish","type":"b17database","link":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/43-39137\/","title":{"rendered":"43-39137"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/43-39137-1024x789.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/43-39137-1024x789.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/43-39137-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/43-39137-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/43-39137.jpg 1253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ROCKETS AID FORTRESS IN SHORT TAKE-OFF<br>Twelve rockets mounted beneath the wings of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the US 8th Air Force aid this crash landed plane to make a take-off short enough to clear obstacles at the end of a small ploughed English field. Fences and trees at one end of the field, located in a valley between two hills, offered extreme danger to the pilot, who successfully cleared them on the short take-off. The noval and successful experiment was conduced by Capt. Richard G. Holub, for bombers which crash-landed away from sizeable air strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After rolling only 3372 feet, half the distance it would take without the 12 rockets mounted beneath the wings. This Boeing B-17 had originally been forced, because of flak damage over enemy territory, to land on a small ploughed English field with fences and trees offering extreme danger to the pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Lincoln 10\/12\/44; Dow Fd 18\/12\/44; Assigned 600BS\/398BG [N8-H] Nuthampstead 29\/1\/45; landed in field Gt Chishill, Essex in night operation with Allan Ferguson 5\/2\/45; rep. by 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton &#038; ret. 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