The restored Liberty Belle B-17, one of a fleet of four-engine heavy bombers constructed by Boeing Aircraft and dubbed the "Flying Fortress ... in every theater of combat during the war but ...

the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that would become the “Yankee Lady” was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps just as World War II was coming to an end. The aircraft would never see combat ...

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 ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress — or its computer-generated ... obvious model work that stands out in comparison to the actual combat footage used elsewhere. Directed by Henry King and starring ...

A B-17 Flying Fortress crash at Bakers Creek in 1943 tragically killed forty people. The crash remains a mystery, possibly due to weather conditions and pilot inexperience. The incident was not ...

This included the development of long-range strategic bombers like the B-17 and B-24 ... of 70,000 lbs. while flying up to Mach 0.84 (650 mph) with an unrefueled combat range of 8,800 miles.

The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the most successful ... this sturdy plane with combat-hardened crews kept having an increasing number of accidents and crashes when returning to base (Galotti ...

Publisher MicroProse Software has announced their remastered classic combat flight simulation adventure B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th Redux is in Early Access on Steam and GOG. In B-17 Flying ...

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.

Nearly 13,000 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were built by the ... Very few of them actually saw combat in WWII, having been produced too late to see action. With so few B-17s still airworthy ...