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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.
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Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood.It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four aging former test pilots who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite.
The group tested the B-47 in carrying nuclear weapons [c] F-86E used as a chase plane for B-36 operations [d] Prior to 1956, individual task groups had been organized for each set of nuclear tests. However, these proved inadequate, gathering equipment at the last minute, then seeing the equipment and records scattered or lost when they were ...
Boeing B-29 Superfortress; Boeing B-50 Superfortress; Boeing B-54; Boeing EA-18G Growler; Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet; Boeing KB-29 Superfortress; Boeing MQ-25 Stingray; Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing; Boeing XB-15; Boeing XB-39 Superfortress; Boeing Y1B-20; Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk; Bolkhovitinov S; Bonney Gull; Borel hydro-monoplane ...
The nuclear arms race became of signal importance. The Air Force retired nearly all of its propeller-driven B-29/B-50s and they were replaced by new Boeing B-47 Stratojet aircraft. By 1955 the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress would be entering the inventory in substantial numbers, as the prop-driven B-36s were quickly phased out of heavy bombardment ...
Laggin' Dragon was the last of the fifteen Silverplate B-29s delivered to the 509th Composite Group for use in the atomic bomb operation. Built at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft plant at Omaha, Nebraska, it was accepted by the USAAF on June 15, 1945, after most of the 509th CG had already left Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, for North Field, Tinian.