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 ...

U.S. defense strategy evolves with 6th-generation aircraft, including the B-21 Raider and F-47, promising advances in stealth ...

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.