Imagine being crammed into a ball turret that's only 42 inches in diameter. Doesn't sound too fun, right? Well, imagine that turret being attached to the belly of a plane, 30,000 feet in the air — and ...

Built from 1936 to 1945, about 45 intact Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress remain. Today, less than 10 are estimated to still be airworthy. There were 12,731 B-17s produced in total, of which 4,735 were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Summary and Key Points: The new Apple+ series “Masters of the Air” showcases the WWII aviators of the 100th Bomb Group and their iconic Boeing B-17 bombers. -Developed in the 1930s, the B-17 played a ...

After more than a half-century mothballed in a Maryland warehouse of the National Air and Space Museum, a storied World War II bomber will finally be moved. Not to the queue of the restoration team, ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress: To modern eyes, the hodgepodge floor and open rivets are daunting, but it was the modern technology of the 1930s and ’40s. A six to seven inch wooden plank and two ...