Most of the older performance aircraft still in use by the military - including the F-15, F-16, U-2 spy plane, B-52 and B-1 bomber, are off-limits to the general public. A ride in one usually is ...

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is one of the most iconic aircraft in aviation history. While it is often remembered for dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and for launching experimental ...

First B-29 Formation in Over 50 Years Gets Airborne at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For the first time since the early 1960’s when they were retired from U.S. Air Force service, two Boeing B-29 Superfortress ...

On September 21, 1942, 73 years ago, the maiden flight of the Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" took place. The plane was the successor of Boeing's ultra-tough B-17 "Flying Fortress," and the predecessor to ...

A couple of months ago, we traveled to the Stephen Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The official annex of the Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Debatably, granted, the star attraction ...

OGDEN — Ogden-Hinckley Airport is receiving a special World War II-era visitor this week. On Monday afternoon, “Doc” — one of only two airworthy B-29s — landed in Ogden as part of “The B-29 Doc ...

Nearly two years before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into the Second World War, the US Army Air Corps asked American aircraft manufacturers to design a bomber that could fly 3 ...

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress could rightfully be described as the aircraft that ended the Second World War. It remains the only bomber to drop atomic bombs in wartime. The B-29 was designed in 1940 ...

On February 18, 1943, with World War II raging in Europe and Asia, a hulking structure rolled onto the tarmac of Boeing Field, about five miles south of Seattle’s city center. Veteran Boeing test ...

Of the 3,900 B-29 bombers built between 1943 and 1946, only two are still flying, and both are kept in the air by not-for-profit organizations. FiFi, owned and operated by The Commemorative Air Force ...

On September 21, 1942, 74 years ago, the maiden flight of the Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" took place. The plane was the successor of Boeing's ultra-tough B-17 "Flying Fortress," and the predecessor to ...