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In this list of history’s best heavy bombers, I am excluding Axis powers bombers such as Nazi German Luftwaffe’s Heinkel He 177 and Imperial...
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In this list of history’s best heavy bombers, I am excluding Axis powers bombers such as Nazi German Luftwaffe’s Heinkel He 177 and Imperial...
A 5-Minute Explainer: 5 Best Airplanes in the History of the U.S. Military – Yes, my Editor has given me quite the tough assignment. Just how...
The B-17, for all its armor and firepower, was simply unable to continue to fly unescorted against swarms of German fighter aircraft and their...
A 5-Minute Explainer: 5 Best Airplanes in the History of the U.S. Military – Yes, my Editor has given me quite the tough assignment. Just...
Ah, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. One of the most iconic warbirds of WWII, and one of America’s Big Three heavy bombers of that...
The B-17 Flying Fortress Was a Quantum Leap in Aviation Design: When the first Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” took its maiden flight on July...
There are many planes, both past, and present, that would make any rankings for the top US military aircraft of all time. Planes like...
Developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) in the 1930s, the Boeing B-17 was primarily employed during the Second World War as...
It is difficult to estimate just how many people have been killed or maimed by various weapons in the 20th and 21st Centuries. It...