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The sole XB-44 Superfortress was a B-29 Superfortress converted to test the possibility of using the R-4360 radial engine.. Development of an improved B-29 started in 1944, with the desire to replace the unreliable Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engines with the more powerful four-row, 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines, America's largest-ever displacement aircraft ...
B-29 Superfortress: 1946: 1953 Combat aircraft: B-36 Peacemaker: 1948: 1958 Combat aircraft: B-45 Tornado: 1950: 1953 Combat aircraft: B-47 Stratojet: 1951: 1965 Combat aircraft: B-50 Superfortress: 1948: 1954 Combat aircraft: B-52 Stratofortress: 1955: 1992 Combat aircraft: B-57 Canberra: 1956: 1962 Combat aircraft: B-58 Hustler: 1960: 1969 ...
Boeing Model 2; Boeing Model 40; Boeing B-1; Boeing Model 6D; Boeing Model 7; Boeing 7J7; Boeing Model 8; Boeing Model 10; Boeing Model 15; Boeing Model 42; Boeing Model 64; Boeing 80; Boeing Model 81; Boeing Model 95; Boeing Model 203; Boeing Model 204; Boeing 247; DZ203; Boeing Model 306; Boeing 307 Stratoliner; Boeing 314 Clipper; Boeing ...
B. Bach Super Transport; Beechcraft Model 34; Bird Innovator; Blackburn Beverley; Blériot 67; Blériot 71; Blériot 73; Blériot 105; Blériot 115; Blériot 135; Blériot 155; Blériot-SPAD S.45; Bloch MB.160; Bloch MB.162; Blohm & Voss Ha 139; Blohm & Voss Ha 142; Boeing 307 Stratoliner; Boeing 314 Clipper; Boeing 377 Stratocruiser; Boeing B ...
The 1950 Rivière-du-Loup B-50 nuclear weapon loss incident refers to loss of a nuclear weapon near Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, during the fall of 1950. The bomb was released due to engine troubles, and then was destroyed in a non-nuclear detonation before it hit the ground.
Lucky Lady II was a Boeing B-50 Superfortress of the 43rd Bombardment Group with an additional fuel tank added in the bomb bay to provide additional range. It became the first airplane to circumnavigate the globe nonstop, when it made the journey in 94 hours and one minute in 1949, assisted by refueling the plane in flight.
The Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter is a long-range heavy military cargo aircraft developed from the B-29 and B-50 bombers. Design work began in 1942, the first of three prototype XC-97s flew on 9 November 1944 and the first of six service-test YC-97s flew on 11 March 1947.
B50 or B-50 may refer to: B-50 Superfortress, an airplane; BSA B50, 500cc motorcycle; International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), code for Plasmodium falciparum malaria; Leyland Royal Tiger, a UK bus; Sicilian Defence, an Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code; A Vietnamese RPG-2 rocket-propelled ...