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The Boeing B-54 was an American strategic bomber designed by Boeing for use by the United States Air Force. Derived from the YB-50C Superfortress , construction of the prototype was canceled before completion, and the aircraft was never flown.
The B-54 program was therefore canceled in April 1949, with work on the YB-50C being stopped before it was completed. [7] [8] While the B-54 was canceled, production of less elaborate developments continued as a stopgap until jet bombers such as the Boeing B-47 and B-52 could enter service. Forty-five B-50Bs, fitted with lightweight fuel tanks ...
Boeing's previous private venture studies formed the starting point for its response to the Air Corps formal specification. [ 3 ] On 29 January 1940, the United States Army Air Corps issued a request to five major aircraft manufacturers to submit designs for a four-engine bomber with a range of 2,000 miles (3,200 km). [ 4 ]
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer [b] is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force.It has been nicknamed the "Bone" (from "B-One"). [2] [3] As of 2024, it is one of the United States Air Force's three strategic bombers, along with the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress.
B54 (New York City bus), a bus line in Brooklyn; Blackburn B-54, a British carrier-borne anti-submarine warfare aircraft; Boeing B-54, an American strategic bomber aircraft; Bundesstraße 54, a German road; HLA-B54, an HLA-B serotype; W54 nuclear warhead, which in one configuration was known as the B54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM)
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a United States heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, and by the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Of the 3,970 built, 26 survive in complete form today, 24 of which reside in the United States, and two of which are airworthy.
The reason, she says, is because Spirit doesn’t have any Boeing 737 Max 9 planes, which she said she’s wary of after watching a 2022 Netflix documentary about crashes of two 737 MAX planes.
SADM in its carry bag SADM hard carrying case A U.S. Army Special Forces paratrooper conducts a high-altitude low-opening military freefall jump with an MK–54 SADM. The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), also known as the XM129 and XM159 Atomic Demolition Charges, [1] and the B54 bomb [2] was a nuclear man-portable atomic demolition munition (ADM) system fielded by the US military ...