The Saab 17 is a Swedish single-engine monoplane reconnaissance dive-bomber aircraft of the 1940s originally developed by ASJA prior to its merger into Saab. It was the first all-metal stressed skin a
SAAB B17 20 Flickr Ragnhild & Neil Crawford
B 17s in Trollhättan assembly hall in 1944
Saab B 17B showing bombing crutch under the fuselage needed to allow the bomb to clear the propeller during a dive, and the large undercarriage doors which acted as dive brakes
The Northrop A-17, also known as the Northrop Model 8, a development of the Northrop Gamma 2F model, is a two-seat, single-engine, monoplane, attack bomber built in 1935 by the Northrop Corporation fo