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

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 ...

Some bombers like the B-17 had eating in the cockpit, but that didn't help the rest of the plane. Flight crews and pilots ...

[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 ...

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 1944, workers at the nuclear reservation each chipped in to buy a Flying Fortress bomber and donated ... The money was used to purchase a Boeing B-17G bomber, the latest model of the iconic ...

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 ...

Publisher MicroProse Software has announced their remastered classic combat flight simulation adventure B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th Redux is in Early Access on Steam and GOG. In B-17 Flying ...

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 ...