The B-25 Mitchell proved far more than a medium bomber, it evolved into a brutal low-level attacker with skip bombing tactics, heavy guns, and even a 75mm cannon. Then comes the Doolittle Raid, a ...

October 1943, Papua New Guinea. We drop you directly into the role of a crewman aboard "Snafu," a real B-25 Mitchell medium bomber of the 345th Bomb Group. In this interactive mission, you choose your ...

Those warnings were backed by proof. In 1921, Mitchell helped organize bombing tests in which Army aircraft repeatedly struck and ultimately sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland, ...

The Boeing B-52 is on track to become the first jet-powered aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous service, a milestone it will hit in the 2050s, thanks in part to its strategic reinvention and ...

The B-52 Stratofortress carries eight engines for one simple reason: the technology of the 1940s, when it was designed, wasn't capable of powering it with anything less. Engineers didn't have much ...

The small number of B-2s in the Air Force’s inventory—and the labor-intensive process of maintaining its stealth coating—put ongoing maintenance costs as high as $200,000 per flight hour. The B-2 ...

The US Air Force funding will cover integration and testing of the Rolls-Royce F130 powerplant on two B-52H aircraft, marking ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has begun the process of evaluating a new radar for its fleet of Boeing B-52H heavy bombers. A lone B-52H, equipped with a modernised active electronically scanned array (AESA) ...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. We debate what it is exactly that made Stewart ...

United Nations front-line troops looking up from their foxholes saw an American B-29 with yawning bomb bay doors. The load that came tumbling down wasn’t lethal. It was books, magazines, candy cigars, ...

The arrest of the alleged J6 pipe bomber just piles mystery on top of mystery. What we know from court documents and media reports since his arrest Thursday is that suspect Brian Cole Jr., is a black, ...

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