The B-17 Ball turret. Every military aviation fan has looked at this iconic piece of ww2 equipment and wondered how on earth anyone could be brave enough to spend a mission inside this cramped ...

To teach bomber crews how to survive these ... their instructors when a “shot” hit its mark. The ball turret, like this one on a B-17 in England in 1943, was designed small to reduce drag ...

Lacey slithered into the front turret so they could fly ... before a young boy fell out of the B-17, prompting a lawsuit that shuttered the bomber in the late 1950s. By the time Art Lacey died ...