Eighty-one years ago today, on November 9, 1944, the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter took its first flight. Derived from the B-29 ...

The C-97 Stratofreighter was a heavy military cargo made out of former bomber designs such as the Boeing B-50 and B-29 Superfortresses. The iconic, state-of-the-art B29 was the only aircraft that used ...

On a January night in 1969, I strapped into the right seat of a Pennsylvania Air National Guard Boeing C-97 at Travis Air Force Base in California for the next leg of a two-week odyssey from our home ...