The Convair XC-99, AF Ser. No. 43-52436, was a prototype heavy cargo aircraft built by Convair for the United States Air Force.It was the largest piston-engined land-based transport aircraft ever built, and was developed from the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber, sharing the wings and some other structures with it.
The Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress' was a significant bomber during World War II, with over 12,000 aircraft produced and serving around the world. After the war, many B-17s were scrapped, but some were used for transport, reconnaissance, or search and rescue missions. Some were even converted to operate as drones during atomic bomb tests.
A B-47 pulls inverted during an Immelmann turn in 1957. (USAF photo) Sadly, the B-47 also suffered losses on a scale that would be utterly intolerable today. Over its lifetime, 203 aircraft (about 10 percent of the total procured) were lost in crashes, with 464 deaths. This article focuses on the two peak years, 1957 and 1958, when 49 B-47s
Others were built by Bell Aircraft in Marietta and by the Glenn Martin Company in Omaha. After World War II, many of the existing B-29 aircraft were sent for storage, and ultimately scrapping at aircraft storage and disposal facilities around the U.S. The remaining B-29s helped build the initial bomber inventory of the Strategic Air Command
All the bomber groups on Tinian were involved in the devastating incendiary bombing raids launched against Tokyo. The 509th Composite Group flew 51 combat missions over Japan, dropping high explosive āpumpkin bombsā over many targets. These were filled with 6,300 pounds of Composition B high explosive.
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