While that aircraft isn't likely to enter the inventory ... The B-52 has remained a key component of the U.S. Air Force's strategic bomber fleet. The modern version of the B-52 is the B-52H ...

Stand-Out Bomber Vulcan remains a stand-out bomber ... By 1984, however, the Vulcan was outmatched by modern aircraft and missile systems. As a result, it was retired from active service with ...

They had contributed $100,000 each for Douglas Aircraft to develop a four-engine ... to see if it could adapt its promising new B-17 bomber into a passenger plane. Keeping the B-17’s wings ...

Bombers dropped their bombs using dedicated mechanical bombsights that used the aircraft altitude and speed ... which is unable to penetrate modern air defenses, can launch its weapons at a ...

Convair, originally Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (it eventually ... It is no small thing to say that the B-36 was the midwife of the modern bomber age. Quite literally, in fact, given its ...

The race for the bomber of the future was on, and its legacy would be lasting. “Quite simply, the B-29 was the gateway aircraft to the modern United States Air Force,” Bohannon says.

and many modern Russian aircraft owe their tech to these storied bombers Also: Discover “The Next NVIDIA” First introduced in 1956, the Tu-95 Bear is still in service with the Russian Air Force.

Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be flying the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first commercial airliner with a pressurized cabin that shared much of its DNA with the B-17 bomber.