Iris Taggart
Iris Taggart’s love affair with the B-17 Flying Fortress began twenty-one years ago when she heard the exciting news about a B-17 flying into McClellan Air Force Base offering tours and booking flights. She [...]

After church every Sunday, Duncan Miller rolls up the heavy door on his hangar at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville. Across the thin strip of asphalt roadway, two World War II Lockheed Navy PV2 [...]

When Horace Greenly, editor of the New York Tribune, urged young men to go west in the 1840s, newspaper men followed settlers and gold seekers to the new frontier. They set up offices in mining [...]

If Only For the Moment
By Frank LaRosa
My mother owned Christmas.
Well, not in a literal sense, of course. But she sure embraced it like it was her own personal holiday!
The day after Thanksgiving pretty much served [...]

We are diverting from the usual cover story this month because I happened to ask Iris Taggert if she would jot down a few words about her husband, Tag, and the B-17’s.  I didn’t expect [...]

Sold for scrap, Liberty Belle rose from the discard heap like a Phoenix and continues to fly across America. The revival of the B-17 bomber aircraft and the establishment of The Liberty Belle Foundation is [...]