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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 ...
WB-50D 73 surplus B-50Ds converted as weather reconnaissance aircraft to replace worn out WB-29s. Fitted with extra gaseous oxygen storage tanks in the bomb bay , Doppler weather radar , atmospheric samplers (e.g. wing pylons to carry F-50 sampling pod) and other specialist equipment.
On 13 January 1969, a Boeing RC-135S, serial 59–1491, ran off the end of the runway and broke up. There were no fatalities, but the aircraft was a total loss. [14] On 5 June 1969, Boeing RC-135E serial number 62–4137, operating out of Shemya AFB, went down in the Bering Sea.
WB-50 of the 58th Weather Squadron, Elelson AFB, Alaska WB-50 and personnel of the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron in 1951. Reactivated as part of Strategic Air Command in 1951 in Alaska, Equipped with very long range WB-29 Superfortresses 1951, upgrading to extended long-range WB-50D Superfortresses in 1956.
A Boeing WB-50D Superfortress, 48-093, c/n 15902, (built as B-50D-95-BO) [282] of the 58th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, fully loaded with fuel for a 3,700-mile weather reconnaissance flight, crashes two minutes after a pre-dawn takeoff from Eielson AFB, Alaska, with the wreckage and fuel burning in an inferno 200 yards long and 50 yards ...
A USAF Boeing WB-50D Superfortress crashed and burned in mountains six miles E of Ishikawa, Japan, early Thursday, killing at least nine of eleven on board instantly. Townspeople who heard the weather-plane crash are foiled at rescue attempts by searing heat.
Investigators have recovered a piece of fuselage that tore off the left side of an Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon, on Friday that ...
It was equipped with WB-50D Superfortresses; the mission of the 59th was flying into tropical storms and hurricanes - Hurricane Hunting. On 1 April 1956, it was redesignated the 59th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. The squadron remained at Kindley until its inactivation on 18 March 1960.