The B-17 Boeing Flying Fortress was notorious amongst the Luftwaffe pilots during the Second World War, rumours of the plane’s ability to withstand staggering levels of damage and stay airborne still circulate over 70 years later.
Rather brilliantly, you can actually buy the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Owners Manual, it’s produced by Haynes and runs through everything you need to maintain and restore your trusty B-17.
It’s the sort of thing a man needs on his bookshelf, for reasons his wife will just never understand.
Ben Branch has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, the official Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
Auto Design Prints was founded by Bradley Dyer to create world class automotive art with his own unique style. Bradley works in the design department for Jaguar as his day job, so he has no shortage of design chops, and he has access to some of the most beautiful cars ever built. This series of…
The Aether Expedition Jacket was developed by the Californian team at Aether specifically to be a 21st century, all-weather motorcycle expedition jacket. Aether was founded in 2009 by Palmer West and Jonah Smith with the goal of creating a line of outdoor gear that would look perfectly at home in an urban city environment, but…
The De Tomaso P70, later known as the Ghia DeTomaso, was a joint project between two independent icons of the motoring world – Alejandro de Tomaso of Argentina and Carroll Shelby of the USA. The project was founded to develop a race car able to compete in and dominate the then-new United States Road Racing…
This highly unusual 1933 Chevrolet custom car is thought to be the first complete car built to a design by Alex Tremulis, the legendary American car designer who would go on to design vehicles as varied as the Tucker 48, the Ford X-2000, the Subaru Brat, and even the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar – a reusable…
This series of 12 automobile mascots from the upcoming Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais are from the golden age of motoring, when exposed radiators led to an entire industry popping up to provide unique, aspirational, and often comedic mascots to attach to the top of radiator caps. Most mascots of this era were…
The Rally Pack is the latest release by Pack Animal, a specialist backpack maker that launched in 2014 producing gear for both off-the-grid adventures and daily urban use. Pack Animal is now run by the highly-regarded folks at Tobacco Motorwear, they pride themselves on making gear designed to last for many years, and many adventures….
