In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated by ... all but the tail and port wing of the 74 year old WWII aircraft was destroyed. Seven lives were lost ...

Though it wasn't the bomber that actually ended the Second World War (that distinction and honor belongs to another Boeing product, the B-29 Superfortress), the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was to ...

The Boeing B-17: From WWII Legend to Apple+ Series Star The new Apple+ series Masters of the Air tells the story of World War II aviators of the 100th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force.

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash ... Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn ...