Can someone really survive a 20,000-foot freefall in a shattered bomber? One B-17 tail gunner may have done just that - trapped inside the rear of the Flying Fortress as it broke apart mid-air.

The bomb bay could carry a payload of 87,2000 pounds of bombs—ten times more than the payload of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress used ... the B-36 was the only aircraft capable of carrying ...

The first responder is the four-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but that was 1930s tech in a 1940s war. The U.S. Army Air Corps requires a state-of-the-art high-altitude bomber with a max ...

Retaining tail booms and fins with a tailplane, the design eventually became knowns as the “Northrop Flying Wing.” The aircraft first ... overall length of 17 ft and weighed 4,000 lbs.

US service personnel were travelling from Essex to Northern Ireland on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber when it hit the rocky hillside of North Barrule, killing all 31 on board. Donald Madar is the ...

and the inside of a B-17 (Flying Fortress) bomber, where cinemaudiences can get a close-up of destruction in the making. When it sticks to flying, I Wanted Wings offers educational and tingling ...

Bombers had already destroyed much of military ... Once over the city of Pilsen, the B-17 Flying Fortress crews would drop their 6,000-pound payloads onto Skoda Works, a massive 400-acre factory ...

The crash comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of aircraft collisions and near-misses. Federal officials have tried to reassure travelers that flying is ... clipped the tail of a parked Delta ...

The legendary B-17 bomber was so much more than just a means for dropping bombs on Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

Military planes sometimes have tail fins that form a V-shape rather than the traditional single fin. Here's why they have ...

This B-29 Superfortress Bomber is one of only two remaining that are air worthy and flying today. This B-29, affectionally known as Doc Doc, was built in Wichita, Kansas. The B-29 was built during ...