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 ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the main offensive weapons used during WWII. Here's who designed and built it, and where they were made.

B-17 Flying Fortress: Big Gamble for Boeing. Today, Boeing may be an aerospace giant, but that certainly wasn’t the case in the early 1930s when Boeing – a company with just 600 employees ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was born from a 1934 request by the U.S. Army Air Corps for a four-engine bomber. Boeing responded with a prototype that took to the skies in 1935.

The early attempt at drones in World War II saw the Army Air Forces convert B-17 bombers into remote-controlled flying bombs.

Hanford employees stand in front of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Day's Pay" Sunday, July 23, 1944, at Hanford Field. ... The money was used to purchase a Boeing B-17G bomber, ...

Nearly 13,000 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were built by the U.S. for World War II. After this weekend’s deadly crash at a Texas airshow, only nine of the historic planes remain airworthy.

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress — or its computer-generated likeness — received plenty of screen time in the Apple TV+ series “Masters of the Air.”. Inspiring the World War II series was ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Bell P-63 Kingcobra that went down in Saturday’s crash belonged to the CAF, which also put on the air show. Hecker is currently is a senior medical ...