The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the main offensive weapons used during WWII. Here's who designed and built it, and where ...

Flying in a B-17 bomber Throttling up the propellers on the B-17 for takeoff, pilot Sam Bass often thinks about the men who once sat where he does today. The former fighter pilot thinks a lot ...

Summary and Key Points: The Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” revolutionized aerial warfare when it debuted in the mid-1930s. As a four-engine bomber, it offered greater payload capacity and range ...

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 ...

Nine-O-Nine, the vintage plane that crashed Wednesday while carrying aviation enthusiasts in Connecticut, was among 13,000 B-17 bombers produced in the buildup to and during World War II.

It was 1945 when Sidney Harris last piloted a B-17 bomber in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Come the morning of Feb. 9, some 70 years later, Harris will again be aboard a Flying Fortress.

NAMPA — Capt. Chet Bowers served as a co-pilot aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in World War II. But until Tuesday, he hadn't set foot in one since June 6, 1944. Now 93, Bowers and his 12 ...

Real B-17s had a difficult time just getting airborne with a full payload of bombs; it took a skilled pilot to avoid crashing such a bomber on takeoff. But pilots in B-17 Flying Fortress will ...

Nine-O-Nine, the vintage plane that crashed Wednesday while carrying aviation enthusiasts in Connecticut, was among 13,000 B-17 bombers produced in the buildup to and during World War II.