The Springfield-Branson National Airport is welcoming a historic B-29 Superfortress bomber to Springfield. The B-29, also ...

The B-29 Superfortress ... ordinance than any other aircraft over the course of the war. Read about the history of the B-17 Flying Fortress The B-29 was a larger bomber and introduced several ...

The B-2 stealth bomber “Spirit of Nebraska” completed maintenance in record time, the Air Force announced Monday. (Bobbie ...

“The B-29 was a technological marvel in the 1940s. It was the first all-electric aircraft. it was the first high-altitude, long-range bomber pressurized. It had all the bells and whistle ...

The crew’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress ... 1945. The bomber, whose serial number was 42-94098, was brought down in the mountainous part of Yame after being hit by anti-aircraft fire from the ...

While these legacy aircraft ... B-25 Mitchells and 4,000 B-29 Superfortresses were developed. These numbers have dropped dramatically over time, however, and the U.S. has not developed a new ...

One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.

A U.S. B-29 bomber was shot ... saw one part of the plane rotating and spewing flames as it hurtled downward. He was 6 at the time. The night the bomber was shot down, Yagoro Saito, 98, was ...

To save fuel, the plane was drop launched from a B-29 bomber. Yeager named his X-1 Glamorous Glennis after his wife. Tests of the X-1 began in 1946, with incremental increases in airspeed ...