Nicknamed the "Flying Fortress" due to its impressive array of defensive machine guns, the B-17 was designed to withstand heavy enemy fire. -First used in combat in 1942, it played a crucial role ...

Boeing's B-17 has been likened to a flying work of ... and the XB-38 variant of the Flying Fortress did just that. The XB-38 was a cooperative project between Boeing and Lockheed's 'Vega' subsidiary.

A Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided in midair with a B-17 Flying Fortress during the Wings Over ... The single-engine Bell P-63 Kingcobra was never used in combat by the United States, according ...

The B-17 was called a "Flying Fortress" in part because of its heavy armament, and as with all combat sims, a good portion of the fun comes from blasting your enemies out of the sky with machine guns.

Less than 100 B-17 airframes have survived since then, less than 15 are airworthy, none of them is a combat veteran. Among the Flying Fortress bombers that can still take to the air, there’s EAA ...

A game that allows you the chance to jump from station to station within a single B-17 has always been a dream ... ever dreamed of fighting aboard a Flying Fortress will fall in love with this ...

The World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Madras Maiden” will take ... of these 4,735 were lost in combat. Following WWII, the B-17 saw combat in three more wars, B-17’s saw service ...

Stuart Hodes had one of World War II's most dangerous jobs: flying bombing runs over Occupied Europe in a B-17 Flying Fortress ... I was flying combat missions. I didn't like being shot at.