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 ...

The famous WWII-era B-29 Superfortress bomber is the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat, as it was the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aircraft was ...

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 was the first U.S. aircraft to be modified for use as an airborne launch vehicle. At the NACA (now NASA) High-Speed Flight Research Station in Edwards Air Force Base, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of only two airworthy Superfortresses in the world will take center stage at Boeing Plaza in July.

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 ...

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 ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

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 ...