A story, years in the making, came to an end for the city of Oak Harbor when a CH-47 Chinook air crew from the Washington ...
In a corner of Hurn Airport, near Britain’s south coast, stand six black-painted hangars belonging to Vickers Ltd. Inside are planes abuilding that pose the biggest threat to U.S. domination of the ...
The Martin B-26 Marauder was a medium bomber that earned a notorious early reputation as the "Widowmaker" due to its high landing speed and a rash of training accidents, even drawing scrutiny from ...
Yarn bombers have created a tribute to World War Two codebreakers in Buckinghamshire [Bletchley Park Trust] A World War Two codebreaking machine and its Royal Navy operators have been commemorated in ...
A World War Two codebreaking machine and its Royal Navy operators have been commemorated in wool. Yarn bomber Clare Reeves, who works at Bletchley Park's learning centre, crocheted and knitted the ...
The B-17 bomber, also known as the Flying Fortress, helped change the course of World War II. Manufactured by Boeing, over 12,000 were made for combat. It was dubbed a flying fortress due to its ...
SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...
Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...
SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...