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The WW2 B-17 Flying Fortress
During the Second World War, the skies were a battlefield that was just as deadly as any foxhole. One of the key components ...
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Life Inside The B-17 Flying Fortress
During the Second World War, the skies were a battlefield that was just as deadly as any foxhole. One of the key components of the American strategy was a strategic bombing campaign, which was ...
The size and complicated design of the B-36 Peacemaker caused perpetual headaches for her aircrew—and maintenance crews on ...
The first responder is the four-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but that was 1930s tech in a 1940s war. The U.S. Army Air Corps requires a state-of-the-art high-altitude bomber with a max ...
On one bombing run, German anti-aircraft fire hit his B-17 Flying Fortress, dubbed "Bachelor's Delight." The flak destroyed one engine and damaged others, leaving just one at full power.
The latest announcements add to an already vast line-up which includes Sally B B-17 Flying Fortress, Team Raven, the VE80 Spitfire Formation, P-51 Mustang ‘Marinell’, and the Richard Goodwin ...
Once over the city of Pilsen, the B-17 Flying Fortress crews would drop their ... Lewis Fisher, gunned the four massive engines. The bomb-laden plane lifted off the runway and the English ...
The incident remains one of the most celebrated examples of piston-engine aircraft triumphing over ... That’s more than some WWII bombers, like the B-17 could carry! The armaments package ...
The B-2 bombers operating out of Diego Garcia have been reportedly using 30,000 lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators ...
General Electric is way more than microwaves and refrigerators. GE Aerospace has been providing America's front line fighters ...