Summary and Key Points: The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" revolutionized aerial warfare when it debuted in the mid-1930s. As a four-engine bomber, it offered greater payload capacity and range ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was an iconic symbol of American aviation during World War II. It holds a storied history as ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed by the United States and one of the most legendary planes of World War II. The bomber entered service in the 1930s and continued ...

Still, sometimes something thought of as visually close to perfection can be improved upon, and the XB-38 variant of the Flying Fortress did just that. The XB-38 was a cooperative project between ...

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 ...

Introducing the B-17 Flying Fortress: During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the need for a new bomber able to reinforce the service’s fleets in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska. This ...

The B-17 bomber was the primary bomber used for long-rangedaylight bombing in World War II. B-17 Flying Fortress lets youtake control of any of the 10 individual positions of the plane ...

Click for full size image B-17 2 is, first and foremost, about the ten crewmembers of a Flying Fortress bomber and the incredible challenges posed by the need to survive 25 missions of strategic ...

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has brought its restored B-17 Flying Fortress to Knoxville for a weekend of show and tell. The World War II bomber is on display at TAC Air ...

The B-17 bomber was the primary bomber used for long-rangedaylight bombing in World War II. B-17 Flying Fortress lets youtake control of any of the 10 individual positions of the plane ...

In B-17's bomber commander mode, you can take control of one of ten stations inside the bomber, the American B-17G that was introduced in late 1943 with several technical improvements that helped ...