Introducing the B-17 Flying Fortress: During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the need for a new bomber able to ...

“He never lost a plane. That’s amazing.” Anderson’s uncle – as a 21-year-old Army Air Force captain – flew B-17 bombers similar to the Liberty Belle, a restored bomber that will be on ...

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 ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago.

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.

Thirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17 - dubbed the Flying Fortress - when it went down and burst into flames minutes after take-off outside Hartford on Wednesday. The aircraft was ...

We were young, gullible and innocent,” is how B-17 pilot Major John “Lucky” Luckadoo described himself and his World War II comrades during his remarks Jan. 16 at the Conversations With… program at ...

An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor of a fallen bomber pilot who gave everything ... David Kingsley’s B-17 was about to crash. The aircraft had been riddled ...

As the US military was looking to expand production of Boeing's B-17 bomber in the late 1930s, Washington asked Consolidated Aircraft to start producing the plane. But after a visit to Boeing's ...