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The North American B-45 Tornado is an early American jet bomber designed and manufactured by aircraft company North American Aviation. It has the distinction of being the first operational jet bomber to enter service with the United States Air Force (USAF), as well as the first multiengine jet bomber to be refueled in midair. [1]
North American B-45 Tornado reconnaissance bomber: 1947: retired 1959: 143: 10,000: North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco light attack: 1965: operational: 370: 230: North American T-28 Trojan light attack: 1949: retired 1994: 1,948: 540: North American XA2J Super Savage bomber: 1952: retired prototype: 1: 4,800: North American XB-70 Valkyrie ...
B-45 Tornado: 1950: 1953 Combat aircraft: B-47 Stratojet: 1951: 1965 Combat aircraft: B-50 Superfortress: 1948: 1954 Combat aircraft: B-52 Stratofortress: 1955: 1992 Combat aircraft: B-57 Canberra: 1956: 1962 Combat aircraft: B-58 Hustler: 1960: 1969 Combat aircraft: C-119 Flying Boxcar: 1956: 1973 Combat aircraft: DC-130 Hercules: 1966: 1976 ...
North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products included the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, the XB-70 bomber, the B-1 Lancer, the Apollo command and service module, the second stage of the Saturn V ...
[1] [12] In May, it was attached to the 405th Fighter-Bomber Wing, which had just been activated. [1] The squadron began to re-equip with North American B-45 Tornado light bombers. In December 1953, the squadron moved to RAF Sculthorpe, England, where it was attached to the 47th Bombardment Wing.
B45 or B-45 may refer to: Bundesstraße 45, a German road; B45 (New York City bus), in Brooklyn, USA; HLA-B45, a HLA-B serotype; North American B-45 Tornado, a U.S. Air Force bomber aircraft of the late 1940s
The North American design won that round of the competition. As an interim measure, the USAF decided to put the North American bomber into production on a limited basis as the B-45 Tornado. The expectation was that B-45 production would be terminated if either of the remaining two designs in the competition, the Boeing XB-47 and the Martin XB ...
North American B-25J Mitchell: USAAF 43-27712 On indoor display North American Yale: RCAF 3397 On indoor display North American Rockwell OV-10D Bronco: USMC 155499: On outdoor display North American CT-39A Sabreliner: USAF 62-4449: On outdoor display North American F-86E Sabre: USAF 50-0600: On indoor display North American F-86H Sabre: USAF 53 ...