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 ...

The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to time one will crash. Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after ...

It went on to drop more bombs than any other aircraft during WW2. The two B-17s involved in the crash were part of Operation Argument, an allied forces operation targeting factories, aircraft ...

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 ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Tuesday marked 78 years since 25 brave young men from the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Air Corps, U.S. Public Health Service and American Red Cross lost their lives ...