The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Consolidated B-24 were the United States' two standard heavy bombers until the arrival of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in 1944. The B-17 served in almost every theater of World War II, but it used mostly by the US Eighth Air Force, based in the UK, to bombard German targets.
8) Ainât No Mountain High â Did you know there are twenty mountain themed Disney attractions? Expedition Everest is the tallest of them all standing at a massive 199 feet tall. However, this is not the tallest mountain in the state of Florida. Britton Hill is almost double the height of Expedition Everest.
No longer must you acclimate on Everest to get some serious climbing elevation. Welcome to BaseCamp, a larger-than-life rock climbing park with the world's tallest artificial climbing wall, at a staggering 164 feet. The massive wall is built into the side of the Whitney Peak Hotel in Reno, Nevada. At the newly revamped BaseCamp park, brave souls will scale the side of the hotel on their choice of color-coded foothold tracks.