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 ...

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

He’d fly the bomber to about 35,000 feet, then shut down the turboprop engine, let it get cold, then try to restart it. Schmidt was too young for World War II, but he flew fighter jets in the ...

Summary and Key Points: The Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” revolutionized aerial warfare when it debuted in the mid-1930s. As a four-engine bomber, it offered greater payload capacity and range ...

The lead investigator into the deadly B-17 bomber crash on Wednesday at Bradley International Airport said Friday that investigators have recovered all four of the 75-year-old plane’s engines ...

Now there is one less of them. In a dramatic scene that could have played out in Europe during World War II, a restored B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber made an emergency landing Monday in a west ...

The four-engine, propeller-driven B-17 bomber struggled to get into the air and slammed into a maintenance building at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.

Nine-O-Nine, the vintage plane that crashed Wednesday while carrying aviation enthusiasts in Connecticut, was among 13,000 B-17 bombers produced in the buildup to and during World War II.

The World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed Wednesday was never designed to carry ... A C-47 transport operated by the CAF, the military version of the DC-3 twin-engine passenger plane built ...

A rare World War II B-17 bomber that never actually saw combat nevertheless met a fiery end Monday after crashing in Illinois. The Liberty Belle, built in 1943, took off from Aurora Municipal Airpo… ...

Nine-O-Nine, the vintage plane that crashed Wednesday while carrying aviation enthusiasts in Connecticut, was among 13,000 B-17 bombers produced in the buildup to and during World War II.