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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 ...
The wooden floorboards were replaced seven times, before a young boy fell out of the B-17, prompting a lawsuit that shuttered the bomber in the late 1950s. By the time Art Lacey died in 2000 ...
Though it wasn't the bomber that actually ended the Second World War (that distinction and honor belongs to another Boeing ...
He posted a picture of the bomber's sparse interior as the ... he was aboard the B-17 and posted a picture of the interior. "Taxiing...(not much of a view from the seats)," the post reads.
While the B-17 may be the most famous bomber of the Second World War, it wasn't the bomber that was produced in the largest number. A total of 12,731 B-17s were produced while 18,482 Consolidated ...
A World War II era B-17 bomber nicknamed the “Madras Maiden” is back in Buffalo this week at Prior Aviation on North Airport Drive in Cheektowaga. For some background information on the B-17 ...