Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress foreign aircraft landing on Swiss territory and 56 aircraft crashing there. In October 1943 the Swiss interned Boeing B-17F-25-VE, tail number 25841, and its U.S. flight crew after the Flying Fortress developed engine trouble after a raid over Germany and was forced to land. The aircraft was turned over to the Swiss Air Force, who then flew the bomber until the end of the war, using other interned but non-airworthy B-17s for spare parts. The bomber was repainted a dark olive drab, but retained its light gray-painted under surfaces. It carried Swiss national white cross insignia in red squares on
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship The Flying Ship (Russian title "Летучий корабль"), or The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, is a Russian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book" and Arthur Ransome in "Old Peter's Russian Tales". Uri Shulevitz illustrated a version of Ransome's tale, "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship", for which he won the Caldecott Medal in 1969. Also, a made-for-television stop motion-animated film with the same name was released in the United Kingdom in 1990. It aired as part of WGBH's children's series,