the B-29 Superfortress), the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was to bombers what the North American P-51D Mustang was to fighters: the iconic symbol of American airpower during WWII. The powerful ...

Seven lives were lost in the accident, including that of Pilot Ernest “Mac” McCauley, who was regarded as one of the most experienced B-17 pilots in the world. While the National ...

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The Army’s Flying Fortresses (four-engined B-17 bombers) are famed among flying men for their long record of safety and reliability. The first B-17 cracked up and burned on test, but since the ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago.

A new exhibition has been curated to remember the crews of two bomber aircraft that collided in 1944 while preparing for a bombing raid in Germany. The B-17 Flying Fortress planes were destroyed in ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress planes were destroyed in the skies above Stanwick Lakes in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, during World War Two. Three men survived the incident on 22 February that year ...

In the final months of the war in Europe, he flew eight separate missions, serving as a radio operator in the 96th Bomb Group, made up of B-17 Flying Fortresses. He was under fire on four separate ...