James Raley was stuck. It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was positioned as a tail gunner had been severed from the ...

However, after 40 flight hours, the sole prototype crashed after its elevator ... and in the extreme tail. While the B-17 may ...

On Monday, April 11, 1983, a B-52G identified as LURE 75 and its companion, LURE 76, were set to depart from Robins Air Force Base, 18 miles southeast of Macon, Georgia. The scheduled takeoff time ...

(CNN)-- A U.S. Air Force B ... bomber was contained. A military board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate the incident, they said. The officials said initial reports said the plane ...