Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Walk Through page 5

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This last page will show some of the other equipment used in the Flying Fortress.
  This is part of the hydraulic system. The black and red cylinders on the left are accumulators.

Here is the electrical box for plugging in the electrically heated flight gear. At altitude over Europe, temperatures would drop well below zero Fahrenheit. Removing a glove and touching a metal surface would cause the skin to stick to the metal.

Here is a junction box for the headset. I seem to remember this one was in the radio operator's compartment.

Here is a part of the oxygen system for the crew. This one was in the waist gunner's compartment.

These last 2 shots were actually not within the crew compartment, but are part of the interior of the wheel wells for the main landing gear.

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