Well, if fame and name recognition were the sole—or at least the primary—determining factors for the winner, then the ...

Another bomber that packed a bigger bomb load than the B-17 was the Avro Lancaster of Great Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF): it wielded the "Grand Slam" bomb, which in several engagements dropped ...

A World War Two veteran from North Devon who survived 17 missions in a Lancaster Bomber before being shot down has just celebrated his 99th birthday. Dick Raymond, from Brayford, was a flight ...

The cash to join the crew of seven others will be put towards the £380,000 cost of the trip in what is considered to be the most famous Allied bomber of the Second World War. The Avro Lancaster ...

The Lancaster Bomber carried out daring missions ... Find out if you have what it took to be part of the crew. On 16 and 17 May 1943, a squadron, No. 617, of 19 modified Lancasters attacked ...

Up until the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force solely relied on its B-52 Stratofortress airframes as its primary strategic bombers. By the mid-1970s, however, engineers discovered a whole new method of ...