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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 ...
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 1950 Rivière-du-Loup B-50 nuclear weapon loss incident refers to loss of a nuclear weapon near Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, during the fall of 1950. The bomb was released due to engine troubles, and then was destroyed in a non-nuclear detonation before it hit the ground.
Lucky Lady II was a Boeing B-50 Superfortress of the 43rd Bombardment Group with an additional fuel tank added in the bomb bay to provide additional range. It became the first airplane to circumnavigate the globe nonstop, when it made the journey in 94 hours and one minute in 1949, assisted by refueling the plane in flight.
B50 or B-50 may refer to: B-50 Superfortress, an airplane; BSA B50, 500cc motorcycle; International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), code for Plasmodium falciparum malaria; Leyland Royal Tiger, a UK bus; Sicilian Defence, an Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code; A Vietnamese RPG-2 rocket-propelled ...
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 ...
The 12th Flying Training Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Education and Training Command's Nineteenth Air Force.It is headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.
Boeing B-50 Superfortress (49–2600 of the 93d Bombardment Group at RAF St Eval in 1950. On 3 September 1949, a WB-29 over the north Pacific Ocean detected a large radiation cloud. Analysis showed that this cloud was from an atomic explosion on the Asian mainland sometime between 26 and 29 August.