The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to time one will crash. Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after ...

After landing ... of the B-17’s airframe gone, the NTSB investigation has focused on the four 1,200 horsepower Wright R-1820 “Cyclone” engines recovered from the crash site.

It's May 1943 at a US Army Air Corps base in England. The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle - a B-17 bomber so nicknamed for the girlfriend of its stern and stoic captain ...

Monument erected at RAF Bassingbourn to honour USAF Eighth Air Force 'Memphis Belle' tribute fenced off when Libyan soldiers relocated to base After outrage from enthusiasts and locals ...