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Movie/TV Titles | The B-17 'Flying Fortress': Elementary Ground Work (1944) Ground Operations) How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1 (1943) Emergency Operations) How to Fly the B-17 (Part 3 (1943) Flight Operations) How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2 (1943) Flying the B-17 (1994) | |
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 | B-17 used for aerial photography following WWII This was the last operational B-17- dubbed "Old Rotten Wings" by aircraft crew Flown by Coast Guard crew with C&GS navigator and cameraman. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | One of the hazards of heavy aircraft on remote airstrips The B-17 was a little too heavy for this airstrip. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | An 8th Air Force B-17 makes a bombing run over Marienburg, Germany, in 1943. The date and photographer are not known. (Army Air Forces photo). |  | Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi and a destroyer maneuvering below thin clouds while under high-level bombing attack by USAAF B-17 bombers, shortly after 8AM, 4 June 1942. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Boeing aircraft plane, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "B-17" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "B-17" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
b-17 flying fortress | 132 |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 2D 31 37 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 00101101 00110001 00110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B - 1 7 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 002D 0031 0037 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36151925 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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