Month: December 2004

In response for the Army’s request for a large, multiengine bomber, the B-17 (Model 299) prototype, went from design board to flight test in less than 12 months. […]

By the 21st century, the B-52 was in its fifth decade of operational service. The eight-engine, 390,000-pound jet was the country’s first long-range, swept-wing heavy bomber. […]

Boeing submitted the prototype for the B-29 long-range heavy bomber to the Army in 1939, before the United States entered World War II. […]