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

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.

Introducing the B-17 Flying Fortress: During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the need for a new bomber able to reinforce the service’s fleets in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska.

Notable B-17 Bomber Facts. One point that isn’t noted in the Apple+ series is that the aircraft was seen as quite a risk for Boeing when its development began.

But after the Boeing B-17 bomber crash Wednesday that claimed seven lives and injured six, some are questioning whether the bombers are safe for paying passengers at all. ...

For almost 70 years, a decommissioned WWII B-17 bomber sat atop a 48-pump gas station along Highway 99E in Milwaukie, Oregon. How it got there, though, is one helluva story.

Swarms of B-17 bombers went in, flying tight formations to defend one another. Flak filled the sky with oily black clouds as Messerschmitt 109s and Focke-Wulf 190s streaked in from all angles.

In 1946, a B-17 crash on Mount Tom killed 25 people, including Coast Guard and Air Corps servicemen returning home from duty in World War II. The crash occurred at about 10:20 p.m. on July 9, 1946 ...

A B-17 vintage World War II-era bomber plane crashed Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, just outside New England's second-busiest airport, and a fire-and-rescue operation was underway, official said.