Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday ... and crew chief struggled to get the two right side engines started. The co-pilot told the passengers ...
the B-17 came as a response to a 1934 Army Air Corps request for a four-engined bomber. At the time, it was more common to ...
In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber ... B-17’s airframe gone, the NTSB investigation has focused on the four 1,200 horsepower Wright R-1820 “Cyclone” engines ...