Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in 1943, killing all 10 on board. The oldest was 25, and what happened to the ...
This was the case on January 24, 1961, when a B-52 bomber carrying two powerful hydrogen bombs took off on a routine mission over Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the mission, the plane ...
The B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range strategic bomber that entered the inventory ... none have been lost in combat, though one crashed by accident shortly after takeoff in 2008.