Today, the B-17 remains a symbol of strength and resilience. Designed by the Boeing Aircraft Company as a high-flying ...

This height enabled the B-17 to fly far above the most advanced anti-aircraft fire at the time. The Flying Fortress could hold a crew of 10 and was warmed with 10 .50-caliber machine guns.

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...

The B-2 is perhaps the most celebrated bomber in the inventory. And at $2 billion per unit (more than any other aircraft ever) maybe the B-2 should be. The B-2’s special status was reinforced ...

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

An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor of a fallen bomber pilot who gave everything ... David Kingsley’s B-17 was about to crash. The aircraft had been riddled ...