Northrop Grumman faces challenges from cost overruns on the Sentinel missile program, B-21 Raider losses, and a missed $30B ...
MicroProse’s B-17 Flying Fortress board game hits Kickstarter, celebrating the legacy of The Bloody 100th and funded within a day of launch.
During the bleak times of World War II, when the fate of world peace was hanging at its all-time high, the North American P-51 Mustang was a beacon of hope and a turning point for the Allies. The use ...
From a 1934 Army specification to the Model 299 prototype, the Boeing B-17’s creation was a triumph of vision over doubt.
A team of students from the University of Arizona will spend the next month sifting through soil in a farm field in Poland in search of closure for several Gold Star families whose loved ones were ...
Boeing may be best known by the general public for passenger jets like the 747, but it also has a long history of developing ...
Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid ...
EVERETT — Thatcher Johnson has spent years building stuff. A former aerospace repair worker, Johnson had built replica airplane equipment, replica plane seats and a full 737 flight simulator in his ...
After vanishing over the Pacific in 1942, Sgt. Thomas Cotner was presumed lost forever. Now a researcher's discovery in a remote New Guinea jungle has revealed the sacrifice of a young Casper, Wyoming ...
The gunners of the B-17 Flying Fortress were a different breed. These men endured unimaginably low temperatures, near-constant bombardment by heavy ordnance and cramped conditions to do a job that ...
The B-17G Flying Fortress that Art Lacey bought never saw combat in World War II—but spent decades overlooking a gas station in western Oregon. A particular Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, known today as ...
SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...