SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...
In the wake of the 2019 B-17 Flying Fortress accident, the Foundation decided to ground its aircraft and put them on permanent display. The Collings Foundation, whose Wings of Freedom tour brought ...
The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed by the United States and one of the most legendary planes of World War II. The bomber entered service in the 1930s and continued ...
In the annals of World War II aviation, few stories capture both the peril and the ingenuity of the air war over Europe as vividly as that of the 8th Air Force. His life was marked by courage, ...
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the extraordinary B-17 Flying Fortress bomber played an enormous part in the Allied victory in World War II. The B-17 was the most prolific bomber in the U.S ...