Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress first chronicled the journey of the historic aircraft in 1944. The 45-minute-long documentary is the work of legendary Hollywood director William Wyler. Per ...

Boeing’s Model 299 was built to compete for a 220-aircraft contract, featuring an all-metal design that could carry 4,800 pounds of bombs and travel 2,040 miles. Although the aircraft broke a speed ...

My dad and I like to build model planes. Some of the World War II planes like the Shark Plane, B-17 Flying Fortress and the Vought F4U Corsair. The model planes are in my basement and are still in ...

Which model airplane kit is best? Model airplane kits come in a vast variety of styles and detailed constructions. They aren’t just a few wooden planks that click together and barely float anymore.

The B-17 Flying Fortress Was a Quantum Leap in Aviation Design: When the first Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” took its maiden flight on July 28, 1935 it proved to be a quantum leap over earlier United ...

Few things capture the imagination quite like the survival stories of historic warbirds. Beyond their combat records and engineering marvels, it’s often the sheer improbability of their survival that ...