Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago.

Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday ... to show them how to get out of the airplane in the event of an emergency and where fire extinguishers ...

That "new Consolidated airplane" was the Consolidated B-24 Liberator ... with 18,482 airframes built. The B-17 and B-24 were the US's most produced aircraft of WWII, each enjoying certain ...