The Flying Fortress. A name that conjures up images of brave young men conducting daylight raids deep in enemy territory, far ...

I went up in a restored B-17 three weeks ago near Denver, Colorado, courtesy of the Liberty Foundation. Here are some photos. This particular plane, called “The Madras Maiden,” is on a ...

See below for a gallery of B-17 photos. Text and images are from the Smithsonian book In the Cockpit II: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II (Collins Design, Smithsonian National ...

It was, of course, the B-17 Flying Fortress. Here's a closer look. Boeing designed the iconic B-17 in the early 1930s. Though the prototype crashed on a flight in 1935, it performed well enough ...