Hospers was a former U.S. Army Reserve colonel (he was selected to be in command of B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby - which had been assigned to the 91st Bomb Group and that had been completely restored ...

Profiles began to emerge Thursday of the 13 people aboard a World War II B-17G bomber that crashed Wednesday morning at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks. The pilot of the bomber ...

A Boeing B-17 went down at the end of a runway at the Bradley International Airport, just outside Hartford, Connecticut, on Wednesday morning, according to officials. There were 13 people on board ...

B-17 crews needed 25 successful missions to rotate home, and most didn't make it. The crew of the famous "Memphis Belle" - they shared a central England base with Swierz and his mates - was the ...

The oldest B-17 in existence, it is perhaps unique in having served from just hours after the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941 to the end of the Second World War in September 1945, first as a ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Bell P-63 Kingcobra that went down in Saturday’s crash belonged to the CAF, which also put on the air show. Hecker is currently is a senior medical ...