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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.
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 ...
Special photo of Air Force bombers from the 1930s through the late 1940s. A Douglas B-18 "Bolo"; a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress"; a Boeing "B-29 Superfortress" and the B-36 "Peacemaker" dominating the group photo with a 230 Ft Wingspan. Taken at Carswell AFB after receipt of the first B-36 in 1948.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress; Boeing B-29 Superfortress; Boeing B-50 Superfortress; Boeing B-54; Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter; Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress; Boeing KB-29 Superfortress; Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter; Boeing RB-29 Superfortress; Boeing XB-15; Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress; Boeing XB-39 Superfortress; Boeing Y1B-20; Boeing YB-40 ...
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress: Bomber 1941 Surviving example. The Swoose: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress: Bomber United States Army Air Forces: World War II Oldest surviving B-17. Texas Raiders: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress: Bomber Commemorative Air Force: 1944-2022 Destroyed in Mid Air Collision November 12, 2022 That's All, Brother: Douglas C-47 ...
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 ...
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The Boeing B-29-40-BW Superfortress [30] that led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo on 24 November 1944 (42-24592), nicknamed "Dauntless Dotty", of the 869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force, left Kwajalein at 3:06 am for the second leg of a ferry flight back to the United States, commanded by Capt. William A. Kelley ...