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

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 ...

The first responder is the four-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but that was 1930s tech in a 1940s war. The U.S. Army Air Corps requires a state-of-the-art high-altitude bomber with a max ...

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

A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided ... The Heavenly Body 11 aircraft crashed at Canvey Point in Essex killing three crew members.

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 ... the Fortress towers over the other aircraft arrayed in ...

James Raley was stuck. It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was positioned as a tail gunner had been severed from the ...

A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided ... The Heavenly Body 11 aircraft crashed at Canvey Point in Essex killing three crew members.