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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 ...
These were existing B-50A, B-50D or RB-50 aircraft, with armament removed and equipped with a probe and drogue refueling system installed by Hayes Aircraft Corporation and capable of refueling three fighters at the same time. Even before the change to KB-50s was complete, in September 1957, the 429th sent the first KB-50 in the Air Force to be ...
These were existing B-50A, B-50D or RB-50 aircraft with armament removed and equipped with a probe and drogue refueling system installed by Hayes Aircraft Corporation, and capable of refueling three fighters at the same time. The squadron began to send KB-50s to be modified to KB-50J configuration.
Boeing KB-50J Superfortress: USAF 49-0372: On outdoor display Boeing B-52D Stratofortress: USAF 55-0067: On outdoor display Boeing B-52G Stratofortress: USAF 58-0183: On outdoor display Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress: USAF 52-0003: In storage. The third and last A model built. The only A model remaining and the oldest B-52 in existence.
The prototype designated the 50J first flew on 22 February 1938, powered by two 285 hp (213 kW) Jacobs L-5MB 7-cylinder radial engines. It was later re-engined with 330 hp Jacobs L-6MB engines and re-designated the 50K .
A Robin B aircraft, fitted with the 115 hp (86 kW) Milwaukee Tank V-502 V-8 engine (air-cooled OX-5 conversions). Robin W (Model 50J) Powered by a 110 hp (82 kW) Warner Scarab radial piston engine. Only a small number were built in 1930. The XC-10 in 1930 XC-10
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Following the success of the de Havilland DH.50J in Australia, the company was asked to design a larger replacement using a Bristol Jupiter engine. The aircraft took only 10 weeks to design and the prototype first flew in December 1927. The cabin had room for six to eight passengers with the pilot in an open cockpit behind the wings.