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  2. Lucky Lady II - Wikipedia

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    The Lucky Lady II was a B-50 of the 43rd Bombardment Group, equipped with 12 .50-caliber (12.7mm) machine guns. For its circumnavigation mission, a fuel tank was added in the bomb bay for extra range. The mission required a double crew with three pilots, under the command of Capt. James Gallagher. The crews rotated in shifts of four to six hours.

  3. Boeing B-50 Superfortress - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Nose art - Wikipedia

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    In the Korean War, nose art was popular with units operating A-26 Invader and B-29 bombers, C-119 Flying Boxcar transports, as well as USAF fighter-bombers. [21] Due to changes in military policies and changing attitudes toward the representation of women, the amount of nose art declined after the Korean War.

  5. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    Boeing SB-17G Flying Fortress, 44-85746A, built as a B-17G-105-VE, [149] of the 4th Air Rescue Squadron, McChord Air Force Base, Washington, returning from a mission, clips a ridge in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, [150] 20 miles from Sequim, [151] slides into a 2,000-foot valley, shedding parts and men as it goes. Three of eight on ...

  6. Nancy Harkness Love - Wikipedia

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    Love, 28 at the controls of a Fairchild PT-19 Nancy Love at the controls of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Queen Bee". Nancy Love, pilot (left), and Betty (Huyler) Gillies, co-pilot, the first women to fly the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. The two WAFS were set to ferry a B-17 named "Queen Bee" to England when their flight was ...

  7. Who has the hottest bikini bodies over 50? - AOL

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    We pulled together pictures of some celebs who have maintained a beach-ready body into their 50s for model Chrissy Teigen to weighed in on. NEWS: Demi Moore Shows Off Her Incredible Bikini Bod

  8. Betty Gillies - Wikipedia

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    Nancy Love, pilot (left), and Betty Gillies (right), co-pilot, the first women to fly the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. The two WAFS were set to ferry a B-17 named "Queen Bee" to England when their flight was canceled by General Hap Arnold. In 1942, Gillies was the first pilot to qualify for the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron.

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