B-17 Flying Fortress is most famous for flying daytime raids into Germany by USAAF since 1943. But long before that, another ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of warbird history is not just the aircraft themselves-but the improbable paths they've ...

First used in combat in 1942, it played a crucial ... The Story Behind Boeing’s B-17 When the Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” first took to the skies in the mid 1930’s, the platform ...

In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated ... who was regarded as one of the most experienced B-17 pilots in the world. While the National Transportation ...

B-17 Flying Fortress: Big Gamble for Boeing Today, Boeing may be an aerospace giant, but that certainly wasn’t the case in the early 1930s when Boeing – a company with just 600 employees ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed ... Throughout its nine-years in production, Boeing produced 12,726 "Forts," and each one proved useful during WWII, making it ...

A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently ...

[Credit: United States Office Of War Information, courtesy Library of Congress archives] Boeing’s Plant No. 2 in Seattle, arguably the birthplace of the B-17 Flying Fortress, predates the entry ...

A Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided in midair with a B-17 Flying Fortress during the Wings Over Dallas air show on Saturday at Dallas Executive Airport. The four-engine B-17 was developed by Boeing in ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress — or its computer-generated ... obvious model work that stands out in comparison to the actual combat footage used elsewhere. Directed by Henry King and starring ...

the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that would become the “Yankee Lady” was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps just as World War II was coming to an end. The aircraft would never see combat ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was coming out of a lengthy restoration process and was going back into service, Hecker said, and he wanted to be as close to it as possible. “I started out as a ...