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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

Memorial Day honors those service men and women who gave their last full measure of devotion to preserve America, so it was particularly fitting that a B-17, the bomber that played a key role in ...