Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday ... a command chief master sergeant with the Connecticut Air National Guard, extinguished the fire on Huber ...

Robert Riddell was a World War II buff, and a ride on a B-17 Flying Fortress was on his bucket ... Minutes before the crash, Riddell was keeping his Facebook friends updated about the flight.

With the vast majority of the B-17’s airframe gone, the NTSB investigation has focused on the four 1,200 horsepower Wright R-1820 “Cyclone” engines recovered from the crash site ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... landing at Bradley International Airport, Connecticut, where it had taken off from only moments ...