1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group QB-17 Flying Fortress Drones over New Mexico, April 1946.  Aircraft were in natural aluminum finish with red fuselage and tail stripes.   Photo taken from accompanying DB-17G drone controller aircraft.   Drone aircraft identified as:
<p>Douglas/Long Beach B-17G-85-DL Fortress  44-83553
Douglas/Long Beach B-17G-90-DL Fortress  44-83603
Douglas/Long Beach B-17G-90-DL Fortress  44-83588
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Lockheed/Vega B-17G-110-VE Fortress 44-85819
United States Army Air Forces
Thompson, Scott (2011), Final Cut: The Post-War B-17 Flying Fortress and Survivors (4th Edition), Pictorial Histories &amp; Aero Vintage Books ISBN-10: 1575101564