After World War II, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was quickly retired from its primary role as a bomber, and most of the ...

Though it wasn't the bomber that actually ended the Second World War (that distinction and honor belongs to another Boeing ...

The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to time one will crash. Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after ...

The tower at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, clears me to land in a crosswind gusting to 40 knots, 5 over the limits of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ... most famous bombers from World War II, and in ...

A World War II era B-17 bomber nicknamed the “Madras Maiden ... when compared to the B-17’s operating cost. A Flying Fortress cost is over $5,000 per flight hour. The Liberty Foundation ...

A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided 75 years ago. The airmen from 379th bomb group were returning to a US airbase in Kimbolton ...

Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been held. An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress ... end of the war, they ...

A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided 75 years ago. The airmen from 379th bomb group were returning to a US airbase in Kimbolton ...