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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.