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the B-29 Superfortress), the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was to bombers what the North American P-51D Mustang was to fighters: the iconic symbol of American airpower during WWII. The powerful ...

In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated ... who was regarded as one of the most experienced B-17 pilots in the world. While the National Transportation ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago.