The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress: To modern eyes, the hodgepodge floor and open rivets are daunting, but it was the modern technology of the 1930s and ’40s. A six to seven inch wooden plank and ...

On Tuesday, a 17-year-old Pensacola High School student with ambitions of becoming a U.S. Air Force pilot himself received a sneak preview of the Liberty Foundation’s Flying Fortress.

The Flying Fortress. A name that conjures up images of brave young men conducting daylight raids deep in enemy territory, far from home. The B-17 was bristling with defensive weapons and could ...

The aptly named Flying Fortress sought to even the odds, bristling with up to 13 guns (B-17G), all of which were Browning M2 .50-caliber weapons with a firing rate of 13 rounds per second.

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.

The B-17's airborne kill ratio found that they downed 23 enemy planes per 1,000 raids. Unfortunately, despite its many strengths, the U.S. lost thousands of B-17s during WWII.

The B-17 Yankee Lady. (Kristen Wong/Air Force) The Federal Aviation Administration recently issued a directive to ground all Boeing B-17E, F and G models of the Flying Fortress aircraft.

ASHLAND – The U.S. Army Air Forces suffered 115,382 battle casualties in World War II. Of those, 52,173 were killed – 44,785 were killed in action.

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 ...