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I was looking at a copy of "12 O'Clock High" on DVD recently, and I was just doing some freeze-framing of various scenes, and I just noticed for the first time that the B-17 that Paul Mantz bellied in at the beginning of the movie is coded GK-R and has nose art of a running Keystone Cop on the starb...

The Washington Post reported on Saturday, 3 November 2007, that the Air and Space Museum's collections committee, an advisory group on the acquisition and transfer of aircraft, vote 5-4 on 28 September 2007 for deaccessioning The Swoose, and transfer it to the National Museum of the United States Ai...

The Washington Post reported on Saturday, 3 November 2007, that the Air and Space Museum's collections committee, an advisory group on the acquisition and transfer of aircraft, vote 5-4 on 28 September 2007 for deaccessioning The Swoose, and transfer it to the National Museum of the United States Ai...

I'm not a rich man, but I'll pledge the length of a B-17F/G to the B-17C project - $74.90!

Mark Sublette

P.S. - Where do I send the check?

I am not entirely surprised to discover that Martin Caiden's report of the Fort that flew the Strangelove missions was incorrect. As much as I loved the accounts he told in "Everything But the Flak" which I read as a junior high school student, with the benefit of adult experiences, I now believe th...

It has been reported in several locations that the B-17G that was used in filming the arctic flight scenes for the Stanley Kubrick film "Dr. Strangelove : Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" was 44-83563. However, this is wrong. The Special Edition DVD of the movie includes a docume...