On April 13, 1945, the final Boeing-built B-17 Flying Fortress was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Forces, marking the end of ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after ... variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t finished in time to join World War II ...

He went on to influence the design of every Boeing bomber from the B-17 and B-29 through the B-47 and B-52, and every jetliner through the 747. This 1956 model was an early concept for the Boeing ...