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.
In 1865, it was named Mount Everest, after Sir George Everest; In 1955, the height was adjusted to 29,028 feet and is still used by Nepal; China uses 29,015 feet as the official height today ; Using GPS technology, the summit was measured at 29,035 feet or 8850 meters in 1999; Nepal started to remeasure Everest in 2017 due to the 2015 earthquake and will be finished by 2020 ; Summits - updated December 2017