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Originally Posted by IceFire
It's a huge amount of work to make one? Several gunner positions plus the cockpit, bombsight and if they were to do it right the navigators position possibly too. A big job... several people in the third party arena have started B-17 projects but I've never seen or heard about one being finished.
So that would be why.
Plus as far as being useful in multiple theaters around World War II (Africa, Pacific, Europe, China/Burma, etc.) the B-24 is the real workhorse.
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I understand the time issues. It just seems like a flyable B-17 would have been worth the time. Same goes for the B-24.