CAMARILLO, Calif.-A rare Boeing B-29 Superfortress flew into the Camarillo Airport. It's called Doc, like one of the seven ...

The B-29 Superfortress was one of the legendary bombers of WWII, making history in two wars and also in peacetime.

Paul Tibbets captained the Enola Gay, the B-29 plane that released the first bomb, Little Boy, over Hiroshima on August 6, ...

China's development of the H-20 next-generation bomber could challenge U.S. dominance in strategic long-range bombers. As the ...

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the chairman of Nihon Hidankyo, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said his foremost wish was to ...

Seeing a historic artifact in a museum is one thing. Seeing it, touching it, and in the case of B-29 Doc — a World War II-era bomber — flying in it, though, is an altogether different experience, says ...

The grassroots organization, Nihon Hidankyo, was lauded for "demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ movement, Nihon Hidankyo, fighting for a world ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...

Cities blasted to rubble. Burned bodies and flayed flesh. Invisible waves of radiation coursing through the air. And the ...

Nihon Hidankyo is a grass-roots movement of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group’s efforts have helped establish a “nuclear taboo,” the Nobel committee said.

Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 14, 1947, at approximately 10:00 a.m., a four-engine Boeing B-29 Superfortress ...