Scott Thompson of AeroVintage shares the latest restoration updates on the Erickson Aircraft Collection's three B-17s in ...

They were assembled at Boeing's Seattle plant and under license by Douglas in Santa Monica and Lockheed-Vega in Burbank, California. A low-wing, all-metal monoplane, the B-17 featured a 74-foot ...

In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated ... who was regarded as one of the most experienced B-17 pilots in the world. While the National Transportation ...

Boeing has taken the wraps of its latest Transonic Truss-Braced Wing, a new configuration that the company says offers an unprecedented efficiency at Mach 0.80 speeds during flight. The new design ...

The wing damage that grounded Boeing’s new composite 787 Dreamliner ... The damage at the end of each of the 17 long stiffening rods, called stringers, on each wing’s upper skin happened ...

Rather than mating wing-skin panels and stringers by hand, a new assembly machine dubbed the Panel Assembly Line (PAL) will install rivets and fasteners via automation. Boeing says the 50-ton ...