Fuselage of a B-17G 'Flying Fortress' a WW-II heavy bomber on display this week at the Fargo Air Museum. This B-17 is painted as quot;Sentimental Journeyquot;

The fuselage is a series of aluminum alloy rings (circumferential stiffeners) fastened together by aluminum strips (longitudinal stiffeners), covered by an aluminum skin. The fuselage is constructed in four sections:
1) the plexiglas nose;
2) the forward section;
3) the rear section; and
4) the quot;stingerquot; tail section. -manual