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 ...

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...

A rare airworthy B-17 bomber, “Sentimental Journey,” returned to Boeing Field to celebrate the Flying Fortress’s 90th anniversary with public tours, honoring its legacy and historic production. On ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1945, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that would become the “Yankee Lady” was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps just as World War II was coming to an end. The aircraft would never ...

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a World War II marvel, an American four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber. It was ...

Of all the heavy bombers flown during World War II, the Boeing-built B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most well-known and beloved. It spent most of the conflict fighting against the Germans in the ...

The Arizona Daily Wildcat is the award-winning, student-managed and -produced news outlet serving the University of Arizona and greater Tucson since 1899. The Daily Wildcat publishes daily at ...

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...