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The Boeing B-54 was an American strategic bomber designed by Boeing for use by the United States Air Force. Derived from the YB-50C Superfortress , construction of the prototype was canceled before completion, and the aircraft was never flown.
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 ...
B54 (New York City bus), a bus line in Brooklyn; Blackburn B-54, a British carrier-borne anti-submarine warfare aircraft; Boeing B-54, an American strategic bomber aircraft; Bundesstraße 54, a German road; HLA-B54, an HLA-B serotype; W54 nuclear warhead, which in one configuration was known as the B54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM)
The Martin B-57 Canberra is an American-built, twin-engined tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft that entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1953. . The B-57 is a license-built version of the British English Electric Canberra, manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin Compa
SADM in its carry bag SADM hard carrying case A U.S. Army Special Forces paratrooper conducts a high-altitude low-opening military freefall jump with an MK–54 SADM. The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), also known as the XM129 and XM159 Atomic Demolition Charges, [1] and the B54 bomb [2] was a nuclear man-portable atomic demolition munition (ADM) system fielded by the US military ...
The bomber can carry up to 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of weapons [2] and has a typical combat range of around 8,800 miles (14,200 km) without aerial refueling. [ 3 ] Beginning with the successful contract bid in June 1946, the B-52 design evolved from a straight wing aircraft powered by six turboprop engines to the final prototype YB-52 with ...
The fictional Vindicator bomber was again represented by the B-58 in Fail Safe, a 2000 made-for-TV remake starring George Clooney. 60's Model Kits of the B58 from Aurora & Revell were modified and used/partially used in the Anderson Science Fiction series " Fireball XL5 ", " Stingray " and " Thunderbirds " as spacecraft or futuristic aircraft.
North American Aviation (NAA) used its NA-40B design to develop the NA-62, which competed for the medium bomber contract. No YB-25 was available for prototype service tests. In September 1939, the Air Corps ordered the NA-62 into production as the B-25, along with the other new Air Corps medium bomber, the Martin B-26 Marauder "off the drawing ...