That’s amazing.” Anderson’s uncle – as a 21-year-old Army Air Force captain – flew B-17 bombers similar to the Liberty Belle, a restored bomber that will be on display to the public this ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago.

At Altus Army Airfield, Oklahoma, he bought a well-used B-17 for $13,750 ... (which base firefighters siphoned from other mothballed bombers). After a stop in Palm Springs, California, where ...

It’s an environment he knows intimately — rather than being a mere spectator, Moses is himself a vintage aircraft enthusiast with about 400 hours piloting antique B-17 bombers.

After a multimillion-pound fundraising scheme, Avro Vulcan XH558 was restored in 2007 and given ... At the height of the Cold War, Vulcan bombers carrying nuclear missiles were a key part of ...