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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.
Martin XB-51 attack bomber: 1949: retired prototype: 2: 4,700: McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II attack aircraft: n/a: abandoned 1983 project: 0: 2,300: McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft: 1978: operational: 323: 4,200: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber: 1958: retired 2016: 5,195 [notes 2] 8,500: McDonnell Douglas ...
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 44-27297 "Bockscar" – weapon delivery aircraft used in atomic bombing on Nagasaki [43] Bristol Beaufighter Mk Ic A19-43 [44] Cessna UC-78B Bobcat 42-71626 [45] Consolidated B-24D Liberator 42-72843 "Strawberry Bitch" [46] Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina 46595 – painted as OA-10A 44-33879 [47] [48] Curtiss AT-9 Jeep 41 ...
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
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
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The Convair XB-46 was a single example of an experimental medium jet bomber which was developed in the mid-1940s but which never saw production or active duty. It competed with similar designs, the North American XB-45 and Martin XB-48, all of which saw little use after the successful development of the Boeing XB-47.
The XB-48 was the first aircraft designed with bicycle-type tandem landing gear, which had previously been tested on a modified B-26. The wing airfoil was too thin to house conventional landing gear mechanisms. [2] The main landing gear was in the fuselage and small outriggers located on each wing were used to balance the aircraft.