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 ...

Quiz time! Which secret American military project during World War II proved even more expensive than the $2 billion Manhattan Project which developed U.S. atomic bombs? That would be the $3 billion B ...

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 ...

When it comes to the military aircraft that have shaped world history, there may be no single airplane model with a greater impact than the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 didn't just push the ...

What do “Star Wars” and a World War II-era bomber have in common? The greenhouse, that glass enclosure at the nose of the plane. The B-29 bomber that inspired the design of the Millennium Falcon is on ...

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 ...

3 Key Points: The Boeing B-50 Superfortress, an evolution of the WWII-era B-29, led the U.S. Strategic Air Command’s nuclear deterrence fleet in the late 1940s. Featuring a more powerful Pratt & ...

The B-29 is small by contemporary air travel standards, but seems to take up more room than an Airbus, stretching its long, thin wings across the runway like it owns, not just Henderson airport, but ...

Every once in a while, the U.S. Air Force lets out their inner petrolhead. During the tail end of World War II and the Cold War especially, taking an existing airframe and fitting more powerful ...