Today, the B-17 remains a symbol of strength and resilience. Designed by the Boeing Aircraft Company as a high-flying ...

This height enabled the B-17 to fly far above the most advanced anti-aircraft fire at the time. The Flying Fortress could ...

In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated by ... all but the tail and port wing of the 74 year old WWII aircraft was destroyed. Seven lives were lost ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force long has kept the same three bombers in rotation, but that will soon change. The United States has the most robust fleet of strategic bombers on Earth. For a generation, the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

The US Air Force allowed a civilian journalist to board a B-2 stealth bomber and record the flight from inside the cockpit, capturing exclusive footage of one of the service's most closely-guarded ...