Called “the fork-tailed devil” by the Germans ... like the nose of a World War II bomber. Flying by November 1937, the Explorer was one of the first U.S. aircraft with a twin-boom ...

It earned the distinction by being so unreliable and hard to operate that pilots didn't see it as a bomber — they saw it as a flying coffin.

The military video of the B-1 shows what the bomber looks like. The Iowa Air Guard said aircraft like this often fly routine missions to various locations in the Midwest. Officials at Grand Forks ...

An aerial view of the cofferdam built for the recovery of British Lancaster bomber ED603 [Courtesy ... Officer Gordon Fletcher (bomb aimer), and Flying Officer Gordon R. Sugar (air gunner ...

Pilot Sherman Smoot (right) of Betsy’s Biscuit Bomber—named in honor of the airlift—was honored to fly with Col. Halvorsen in Germany in June 2019. [Courtesy: Sherman Smoot] Halvorsen—born ...