On April 13, 1945, the final Boeing-built B-17 Flying Fortress was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Forces, marking the end of ...

The size and complicated design of the B-36 Peacemaker caused perpetual headaches for her aircrew—and maintenance crews on ...

The first responder is the four-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but that was 1930s tech in a 1940s war. The U.S. Army Air Corps requires a state-of-the-art high-altitude bomber with a max ...

James Raley was stuck. It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was positioned as a tail gunner had been severed from the ...

At 7 p.m. that evening, President Kennedy gave a 17-minute speech ... interceptors of the day. Boeing followed the B-47 with history’s longest-flying strategic bomber, the B-52 Stratofortress.

Boeing Co. has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the US, as the trade war between the two biggest economies escalates. The jet, at Boeing’s ...

On August 15, eight of them attacked a flight of six Mitsubishi G3M bombers and shot down all six without loss. Wong Pan-Yang in Boeing No. 1701 downed one and shared in the destruction of a ...

Boeing has secured a contract modification valued at $2.26 billion for the sustainment of the U.S. Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft. The Department of Defense said ...

This B-29 Superfortress Bomber is one of only two remaining that are air worthy and flying today. This B-29, affectionally known as Doc Doc, was built in Wichita, Kansas. The B-29 was built during ...

NEW YORK — US aviation giant Boeing on Tuesday said it had finalized a firm order from Japan Airlines (JAL) for 17 737 MAX 8 aircraft, almost doubling the airline's overall orders of the plane. "The ...