One such aircraft was B-17G 44-85531, registered as N809Z, which was used in trials of the innovative Fulton Skyhook recovery ...

The aircraft, notably the Boeing B-17 bombers, are also as much the stars ... there was thought that there was no need for a ...

Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated by the ... who was regarded as one of the most experienced B-17 pilots in the world. While the National ...

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 ...

By the time Raymond K. “Duke” Deamer joined his bomber unit in February 1944 at RAF Knettishall, Suffolk, England, the ...

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 ...

Robert Riddell was a World War II buff, and a ride on a B-17 Flying Fortress was on his bucket ... Riddell went out on the bomber Wednesday, and was one of seven people who police believe were ...

One famous American heavy bomber was the B-17 Flying Fortress ... like the brilliant Mosquito aircraft design, need to think differently and outsmart the Americans at their own game.