Subject: Cost of a B-17G

From: [email-masked] (joseph.f.baugher)
Date: 16 Sep 94 02:32:17 GMT

As a postscript to the B-17 story (and in response to various queries), 
here is some cost information on the B-17 Fortress.  

According to Peter Bowers's *Boeing Aircraft Since 1916" the cost of a 
B-17G when built in mass-produced quantities in 1943-44 was: 

	Airframe 		$127,069 
	Engines 		 $38,483 
	Propellers 		 $11,900 
	Electronics 		  $9,040 
	Ordnance 		  $6,342 
	Miscellaneous equipment  $45,495 
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	Total: 			$238,329 

Sounds like small potatoes today! 

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