Today, the B-17 remains a symbol of strength and resilience. Designed by the Boeing Aircraft Company as a high-flying strategic bomber, the B-17 came as a response to a 1934 Army Air Corps request ...

In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated by ... all but the tail and port wing of the 74 year old WWII aircraft was destroyed. Seven lives were lost ...

The B-32 only flew some recon missions and engaged in some skirmishes in the closing days of WWII before being retired and ...

Thirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17 - dubbed the Flying Fortress - when it went down and burst into flames minutes after take-off outside Hartford on Wednesday. The aircraft was ...

Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday, took this photo as the aircraft taxied for take off and shared it with his friends on Facebook. (Used with ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t finished in time to join World ...

Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...