A B-2 bomber can fly 6,000 nautical miles — just under 7,000 miles — without refueling, climbing to 10,000 miles with one ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II, but its story is full of strange twists ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.

This aircraft, classified as a medium bomber, was the first American aircraft to bomb Japan during the famous Doolittle Raid ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the main offensive weapons used during WWII. Here's who designed and built it, and where ...

Mr. Moffitt, who served as a flight engineer and fired the top turret guns on a B-17 bomber, died Saturday at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Alzheimer's disease. He was 88.

During World War II, the B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the most formidable bombers in the sky. However, behind its iconic ...

A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently working on in a roadside barn for the past 40 years.

Development of the B-17 bomber began in the 1930s for the US Army Air Corps (USAAC). Its first version, the Model 299, had four Pratt and Whitney R-1690 Hornet nine-cylinder radial engines with 750 ...

1200-horsepower Wright engines for B-17F Flying Fortress bombers ready for installation on the mighty warships of air at the Boeing plant in Seattle.

Where B-17 bombers once roared over Sebring and Lake Jackson, now the engines of powerful racecars echo over the airfield. It’s impossible to know how many race fans realize the important role the ...