able to fly at a service ceiling of up to 35,000 feet depending on bomb load. This height enabled the B-17 to fly far above the most advanced anti-aircraft fire at the time. The Flying Fortress ...

when he flew off in a B-17 Flying Fortress -- nicknamed "Wantta Spar," a boxing reference -- carrying the biggest conventional bomb load ever put aboard a U.S. aircraft. The B-17 normally had a ...

The A-4 Skyhawk was capable of carrying a bomb load equivalent to that of a World War II-era Boeing B-17 bomber – a fact that is notable as entered service less than a decade after the Flying ...