The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed by the United States and one of the most legendary planes of World War II. The bomber entered service in the 1930s and continued ...

For a superbly detailed account of the B-17's history, read the book Flying Forts: The B-17 in World War II by the late ...

It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed ... the military's most dangerous jobs during World War II. Raley would later serve in the Korean and ...

A World War II era B-17 bomber nicknamed the ... it must be put into perspective when compared to the B-17’s operating cost. A Flying Fortress cost is over $5,000 per flight hour.

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 Fortress ... bombers from World War II, and in the summer of ...

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 ... join World War II, but ...