The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II, but its story is full of strange twists ...

A 35,000-pound B-17 bomber crash-lands in Belgium—no crew aboard, engines still running. RAF soldiers find no signs of life, ...

"The B-17 was extremely sturdy, extremely resilient, but it required significant skill to fly it," said Anthony Roman, a former corporate pilot and an aviation security expert with Roman & Associates.

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 ...

Notable B-17 Bomber Facts. One point that isn’t noted in the Apple+ series is that the aircraft was seen as quite a risk for Boeing when its development began.

The B-17 bomber was developed in the 1930s and has four engines. It was the third most produced bomber of all time and it was used to carry out bombing missions during World War II.

World War II combat missions with B-17 bombers sent crews of young Americans up against marauding enemy fighter planes and antiaircraft fire. In the early going, one-third of those who departed ...

The B-17 bomber “Memphis Belle” was one of the first bombers to fly 25 missions. The War Department made a stirring documentary about the bomber’s final mission over a German port city.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - A day before his final mission aboard a B-17 bomber in World War II, Norbert Swierz sat down on his bunk and jotted down a poem for his mother back in Michigan.

After reassembling the bomber and parking it above his gas pumps, Lacey’s B-17 became an instant hit. Locals flocked to Lacey’s gas station to fill up underneath the retired WWII plane.

B-17 2 focuses on the strategic bombing of Occupied Europe by the U.S. Eighth Air Force, based in England. As such, a tremendous amount of research has gone into selecting targets that were ...

The bomber, operated by the nonprofit Collings Foundation, was last inspected in January, the NTSB said. There are 16 B-17Gs currently registered in the U.S., including the one that just crashed.