Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing ...

Nine-O-Nine, the vintage plane that crashed Wednesday while carrying aviation enthusiasts in Connecticut, was among 13,000 B-17 bombers produced in the buildup to and during World War II.

B-17 bombers of the Eighth Air Force practice flying in formation over England, 1944. The original Nine-O-Nine was a Boeing B-17G “Flying Fortress” bomber.

Introducing the B-17 Flying Fortress: During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the need for a new bomber able to reinforce the service’s fleets in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska.

HOLYOKE, Mass. (Tribune News Service) — Saturday morning broke hot and muggy, not unlike the day 78 years ago when 25 men climbed about a converted B-17 bomber to fly from Greenland to New York ...

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October 3, 2019 / 3:00 PM EDT / CBS Boston HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS/AP) — Authorities have identified the people killed and injured in the crash of a B-17 bomber at a Connecticut airport.

A B-17 vintage World War II-era bomber plane crashed Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, just outside New England’s second-busiest airport, and a fire-and-rescue operation was underway, official said.

At 10:20 a.m. on Nov. 10, 1943, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber carrying a Long Island airman and 12 other Americans took off from an air base near England’s southeast coast, bound for its home ...

HOLYOKE — Saturday morning broke hot and muggy, not unlike the day 78 years ago when 25 men climbed about a converted B-17 bomber to fly from Greenland to New York after the end of World War II.

Introducing the B-17 Flying Fortress: During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the need for a new bomber able to reinforce the service’s fleets in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska.