The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" revolutionized aerial warfare when it debuted in the mid-1930s. As a four-engine bomber, it ...
"On July 17, 2016, after 16 years of restoration, B-29 Doc roared back to flight," reads the organization's history of the ...
Twenty-one days after the test, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later the plutonium bomb was used to bomb Nagasaki. The two bombs killed ...
Its four bomb bays could carry an immense bomb load of 39,000 kg, even more than the later B-52 ... which could detach and ...
OGDEN — Ogden-Hinckley Airport is receiving a special World War II-era visitor this week. Monday afternoon, “Doc” — one of ...
As CarScoops points out, using a water bomber to put out a vehicle fire is like bringing a Howitzer to a knife fight, but due to the extremely isolated location of the accident authorities were ...
If the B-29 carrying Little Boy explodes, the consequences could be catastrophic. He takes a radical decision – both he and his colleague, Lieutenant Morris Jeppson, will arm the bomb in the air.
S. Air Force to reverse engineer the B-2 bomber’s Load Heat Exchanger (whatever that is). You’d think if the Air Force wanted to reverse engineer something, they’d be looking at another ...
Tom Pescha and Tony Mazzolini will present a program on the restoration of “Doc,” a B-29 bomber. Lunch is $20 and reservations must be made by noon on Aug. 30. Gluten-free and vegetarian meals ...
Residents of a western Tokyo city applauded when seeing a U.S. B-29 bomber engulfed in flames in the air near the end of World War II. After the aircraft crashed, however, they recovered the ...