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 ...

Summary and Key Points: It's remembered for one world-altering act: the B-29 Superfortress (check out our original photos below) remains the only aircraft ever to drop a nuclear weapon in combat, ...

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 ...

Back in 1948, a B-29 Superfortress crashed and sake, but lowering water levels have made this craft more accessible than ever ...

The story is dramatic: a B-29 Superfortress named Aquar 52, attacked by Japanese Ki-44 fighters over Japan, fights on after ramming damage, mechanical failure, and ammunition shortages. In the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The B-29 has been down there since July 21, 1948, when a faulty altimeter caused the crew to crash into the water.

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 ...