The Messerschmitt Me 264 was designed as an “America Bomber” with a sleek airframe, crew comforts, and a range meant to threaten targets across oceans. But weak engines, shifting priorities, and ...

"Star Wars" is pretty much World War II in space. Not just because of the overarching plot involving an evil empire and dogfights between airplanes/spacecraft, but because so much of the first movie — ...

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...

The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the ...

SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...

Abilene police responded to a disturbance call on South 38th Street, a few days before Christmas, and arrested 36-year-old Diona Olson. New Clyde Connect app empowers residents with direct issue ...

The B-29 bomber’s Plexiglas nose was the obvious inspiration for the space freighter Millennium Falcon. Special effects artists replaced the blue screen with stars only in post-production; on set, the ...

OME, Japan — A California man recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the memory of his great-grandfather, one of five American airmen killed when their B-29 Superfortress ...

Sky watchers in the York and Adams county area were treated to a special view on Monday afternoon, with a rare glimpse of one of only two operational B-29 Superfortress bombers while it transited the ...

It's no secret that military machines like bombers cost a lot of money, but every so often, something truly pricey rolls off the assembly lines. During World War II, defense industries across the ...

The B-29 Superfortress wasn’t just another bomber - it was the most advanced warplane of World War II. From its pressurized cabin to its massive bomb load, this aircraft changed aerial warfare forever ...