Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago. Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL ...

Notably, the B-17 dropped more ordnance than any other aircraft during the war ... When the prototype, designated Model 299, first took to the skies in the mid-1930’s in Washington, one reporter ...

The aircraft, notably the Boeing B-17 bombers, are also as much the stars ... was in the midst of the Great Depression. However, the Model 299, which was a cross between the Boeing 247 passenger ...