With heavy rains, questions emerged all morning on whether the big steal bomber would fly. It was not to be in what is the ...

Facing devastating head-on attacks, the US Army Air Forces experimented with grotesquely overarmed B-17 and B-24 gunships designed to shield bomber formations. This episode explores the YB-40, XB-41, ...

The Boeing Factory in Everett, Washington, is the world's largest building - spanning 98 acres – and it is so big it even ...

A massive factory built to construct the world's biggest airliners has its own fire department, shops, and even a nursery ...

The 29th of December is the 80th anniversary of an air crash that took place in Bashley, to the north-west of New Milton.

Why First Lieutenant Ewald Swanson's crew flew a B-17 by pulling bare control cables with their hands during WW2 —[...] ...

Surprisingly, the United States Air Force is actually not the largest operator of strategic bombers. The People's Liberation ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was already a legend of World War II, but its story did not end in 1945. We followed how Israel secretly acquired surplus B-17s in defiance of an international arms embargo ...

Franz Stigler, a German fighter pilot, spared American bomber pilot Charles Brown during World War II, illustrating how ...

If you walk along a stretch of the Kent coast at just the right time, the sea will reveal the remnants of a remarkable ...

The military and police say a suicide car bomber and three gunmen have attacked a military post near a village in northwest Pakistan, triggering an hourslong gunbattle ...

The Boeing B-52 is on track to become the first jet-powered aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous service, a milestone it will hit in the 2050s, thanks in part to its strategic reinvention and ...