It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the extraordinary B-17 Flying Fortress bomber played an enormous part in the Allied victory in World War II. The B-17 was the most prolific bomber in the U.S ...

The legendary B-17 Flying Fortress has been the focus of many movies and videogames. One of the oldest videogames centered around the famed bomber dates from 30 years ago. Called B-17 Flying Fortress, ...

If you want – or can afford – to put a price on a piece of warmaking history, let that price be in the vicinity of $9 million. That’s the asking price for a B-17E Flying Fortress project that’s ...

In this April 2, 2002 photo, the Nine-O-Nine, a Collings Foundation B-17 Flying Fortress, flies over Thomasville, Ala., during its journey from Decatur, Ala., to Mobile, Ala. A B-17 vintage World War ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was already a legend of World War II, but its story did not end in 1945. We followed how Israel ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress Was a Quantum Leap in Aviation Design: When the first Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” took its maiden flight on July 28, 1935 it proved to be a quantum leap over earlier United ...

Imagine being 19 years old in 1945, bundled in an electrically-heated flight suit and soaring at 20,000 feet above the English Chanel toward Hamburg, Berlin or Düsseldorf in a B-17 Flying Fortress ...

The Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress," is displayed for private viewing at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio. (John Minchillo/AP) The introduction of the Boeing B ...

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. Now, only a ...

The vintage B-17 Flying Fortress that visited Spokane in July as part of the Wings of Freedom Tour crashed Wednesday during an emergency landing at an airport outside Hartford, Connecticut, killing ...

B-17: Fortress in the sky is nothing special; it's a very standard shoot-em-up sorta game with a WW2 dressing to it. It does get repetitive, but depending on the situation can actually be quite ...

Multiple people were killed and several were injured this morning when a B-17 “Flying Fortress” crashed just outside Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., at 9:45 a.m. this morning.