#model 299

Boeing 299

Inside the radio compartment on the Boeing Model 299, 1935; the compartment was upholstered to reduce external noise, in contrast to the bare aluminum finish of the rest of the aircraft

Boeing’s prototype B-17, with the factory designation of Model 299, was designed by a team of engineers led by E. Gifford Emery and Edward Curtis Wells, and was built a the company’s own expense.

A close-up of the fairing for the bombsight on a Boeing Model 299, 1935

YB-17 36-149 nosed over on landing at Seattle, 7 December 1936

Here is the model 299 YB-17 prototype, just so one can appreciate the similarities between it and the Boeing XB-15