Step into the riveting world of World War II aerial warfare as B17 Bombers launch a daring attack on a heavy cruiser! This ...
SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...
August 28, 1943 - Eight B-17F “Flying Fortresses” Bombers were returning to the Army Airfield Base in Harvard on Aug. 28, 1943 when three collided. One of the bombers crash landed and two were ...
The B-17G Flying Fortress that Art Lacey bought never saw combat in World War II—but spent decades overlooking a gas station in western Oregon. A particular Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, known today as ...
The Experimental Aircraft Association will have one of the few existing B-17 bombers on display this weekend at Arlington Municipal Airport. Amanda Rogers [email protected] Four ...
After the carnage of WWI, the U.S. Army Air Corps saw the need for a new type of plane with the range, altitude and speed to effectively bomb its targets. Boeing soon ...
SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...
The B-17 bomber, also known as the Flying Fortress, helped change the course of World War II. Manufactured by Boeing, over 12,000 were made for combat. It was dubbed a flying fortress due to its ...
Jan. 5 marks the anniversary of an engineering feat: the beginning of construction on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Nebraska U.S. Senator George Norris had promoted the concept of a ...