What You Need to Know: The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status ... When the prototype, designated Model 299, ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t finished in time to join World ...

If you’re going to do a large-scale model airplane ... this isn’t the biggest small B-17 ever built. That record goes to the 1:3 scale Bally Bomber, a real, not remote controlled plane ...

Made by its owner, this model is of a Stirling Bomber used by the Americans during World War II. The U.S. military were based at RAF Marham in 1942. This model can fly, albeit on the tethered line.

Thirteen people were on board the vintage Boeing B-17 - dubbed the Flying Fortress - when it went down and burst into flames minutes after take-off outside Hartford on Wednesday. The aircraft was ...