The B-17 and B-24 were the US's most produced aircraft of WWII, each enjoying certain advantages over the other. Another bomber that packed a bigger bomb load than the B-17 was the Avro Lancaster ...
this and the B-24’s greater vulnerability to battle damage (the leaky fuel system was a particular problem) made the B-17 the preferred strategic bomber in the European theatre.” Despite such ...
As the US military was looking to expand production of Boeing's B-17 bomber in ... turned out a new bomber design, and it received a contract for a flyable prototype, the XB-24, in March 1939.
The first piece of B-24 was completed at Willow Run two days after the attack. But Edsel had promised that the massive bombers would take flight in May 1942. After numerous delays and production ...
At least four B-1B bombers arrived in Guam last week amid tensions in the South China Sea, U.S. Air Force's photos showed.