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

The Flying Fortress. A name that conjures up images of brave young men conducting daylight raids deep in enemy territory, far from home. The B-17 was bristling with defensive weapons and could ...

The bomber earned the nickname "Bone" and is an impressive aircraft with numerous capabilities. It's no wonder the Air Force is still flying the B-1 Lancer ... feet long and 17 feet high with ...

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

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Northrop Gumman’s B-2 Spirit has unmatched stealth, power, and global reach that make it an irreplaceable asset in US defense ...

Rather, the B-52 was designed to carry a sizeable payload, a task which the bomber can still perform readily. Harrison Kass is a senior defense and national security writer with over 1,000 total ...

A pair of United States Air Force B-1B bombers taxi to be parked at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam on Jan. 17, 2025, in support of Bomber Task Force 25-1. Another pair of B-1B... A pair of United ...

In 1963, the Lockheed A-12 (code-named “Archangel”) became America’s first supersonic stealth plane. Incredibly fast, much ...

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