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The Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter is a long-range heavy military cargo aircraft developed from the B-29 and B-50 bombers. Design work began in 1942, the first of three prototype XC-97s flew on 9 November 1944 and the first of six service-test YC-97s flew on 11 March 1947.
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a civil derivative of the Boeing Model 367, the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter, which first flew in late 1944. William Allen, who had become president of the Boeing Company in September 1945, sought to introduce a new civilian aircraft to replace reduced military production after World War II. [4]
The KC-97 Stratofreighter was an aerial refueling tanker variant of the C-97 Stratofreighter (which was itself based on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress), greatly modified with all the necessary tanks, plumbing, and a flying boom first developed for the KB-29 bomber. The cavernous upper deck was capable of accommodating oversize cargo accessed ...
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The squadron was first active during World War II as the 321st Transport Squadron, operating a courier service from the United Kingdom and France until it was disbanded in 1945. The 321st Air Refueling Squadron was activated as a Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter squadron in 1953.
The unit was established in late 1943 at El Paso Municipal Airport, Texas, being formed as a B-29 Superfortress Very Heavy bombardment Group. The unit was formed with four bomb squadrons (869th, 870th, 871st and 872d), all being newly constituted.
Boeing 367 C-97 Stratofreighter Boeing 367-76 KC-97 Stratofreighter; Boeing 367-60 C-97 derivative with four T34 turboprops and gull wings; Boeing 367-64 C-97 derivative with four J57 turbojets in podded pairs and swept wings; Boeing 367-64-60 minelayer for USN with four J40 turbojets; Boeing 367-80; Boeing 367-86 two KC-97Gs with T34 turboprops
After the US Air Force in November 1950 asked Boeing to look at tanker/transport aircraft that would be a significant improvement over the Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter, design studies were begun. This design eventually evolved into the Boeing 367-80 , which Schairer was heard to observe was not different than design he, Ed Wells and John ...