A dozen B-17 Flying Fortresses were on their way to Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, when they came under attack from Japanese A6M "Zero" fighters – one of those bombers was shot ...
2 in Seattle, arguably the birthplace of the B-17 ... Flying Fortresses rolled out of the factory, beginning in the 1930s. Machine screws to be used in building new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers ...
In recent years, in fact, U.S. bombers were sent over the Artic circle multiple times, with B-1Bs, B-2As and B-52Hs flying there ... exercise Apex Buccaneer are currently deployed in Europe.
By Matt White Posted on Dec 5, 2024 The Air Force is moving 800 airmen and 17 supersonic ... to take delivery of the B-21 Raider, the next-generation stealth bomber currently undergoing flight ...
A senior US Air Force (USAF) leader suggests that it would be prudent to consider obtaining significantly more Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider bombers given ... the B-21 and the current production ...
Her father, John Hyatt Edwards, was the pilot of the lead bomber of that fateful flight of more than 3,000 planes, flying a B-17 on Dec. 24, 1944. It didn’t start out that way. Gen. Frederick ...