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.
That honour actually goes to the lesser known Chimborazo in Ecuador. Everestâs summit is 29,035 feet above sea level (Picture: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Itâs altitude is far lower than Everestâs â 6,310 metres â but if you stand on its peak you are actually closer to space. If you are talking about tallest mountain, then that honour goes to Manua Kea in the Pacific. If measured from its base on the ocean floor, the mountain is actually 10,000 metres tall.