Scott Thompson of Aero Vintage Books provides the latest updates on three B-17s at the Erickson Aircraft Collection. While ...

the B-17 came as a response to a 1934 Army Air Corps request for a four-engined bomber. At the time, it was more common to ...

29, 2004, file photo, the Nine-O-Nine, a Collings Foundation B-17 Flying Fortress, flies over Bristol. The lawsuit contends the pilots also failed to “run-up” the engines prior to takeoff.

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... B-17 was having having issues with the number 4 engine, which was seen sputtering and smoking by ...