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After landing hard and skidding into the de-icing tanks at the Bradley International Airport, all but the tail and port wing of the 74 year old WWII aircraft ... experienced B-17 pilots in the ...
April 13, 1945-we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the delivery of the final Boeing-built B-17 Flying Fortress (s/n ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from B-17 ... of a B-17 Flying Fortress as they attempt to complete 25 harrowing missions inspired by the real-life battles of The Bloody 100th Bomber ...
A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided 75 years ago. The airmen from 379th bomb group were returning to a US airbase in Kimbolton ...
James Raley was stuck. It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was positioned as a tail gunner had been severed from the ...
The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to time one will crash. Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after ...
The tower at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, clears me to land in a crosswind gusting to 40 knots, 5 over the limits of the Boeing B-17 Flying ... the Fortress towers over the other aircraft arrayed in ...
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Bomber Aircraft: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was created amidst the rising need for strategic bombers that were fast, operational at high ...
A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided 75 years ago. The airmen from 379th bomb group were returning to a US airbase in Kimbolton ...