The Flying Fortress could hold a crew of 10 and was warmed with 10 .50-caliber machine guns. The B-17 platform played an ...

The PV-1 bomber, which also bore four guns, flew successful missions throughout the war. North American B-25 Mitchell One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one ...

The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...

A rare World War Two-era plane has crashed at an airport in the US state of Connecticut, killing seven people. Thirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17 - dubbed the Flying Fortress ...

We were young, gullible and innocent,” is how B-17 pilot Major John “Lucky” Luckadoo described himself and his World War II comrades during his remarks Jan. 16 at the Conversations With… program at ...

Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...

By World War II, bombers became some ... is 69 feet long and 17 feet high with a wingspan of 172 feet. While expensive and with a relatively small payload, the B-2's strength lies in its stealth ...

The surviving member of the flight crew of the World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed at Bradley International Airport last fall told federal investigators he believes the pilot “froze” in ...

More than 80 years after his plane crashed over Germany during WWII, Providence native Staff Sgt. Earle L. Dorr Jr.'s ...