What You Need to Know: The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against ... When the prototype, designated Model 299, first took to the skies in the mid-1930 ...

However, the Model 299, which was a cross between ... of the fuselage and in the extreme tail. While the B-17 may be the most ...

The wooden floorboards were replaced seven times, before a young boy fell out of the B-17, prompting a lawsuit that shuttered the bomber in the late 1950s. By the time Art Lacey died in 2000 ...

Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday, took this photo as the aircraft taxied for take off and shared it with his friends on Facebook. (Used with ...

The surviving member of the flight crew of the World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed at Bradley International Airport last fall told federal investigators he believes the pilot “froze” in ...