The USAF awarded a $45m contract to Boeing for improving the B-1B bomber’s avionics software as part of the SBP in December 2007. The contract enabled work to start on the Sustainment Block SB 14. SB 14 underwent flight test at Edwards Air Force Base, California and was delivered in ...
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but in an interesting twist it didn’t replace the venerable B-52 but rather was used as a supplement to the big Boeing bomber. The latest addition to the strategic forces is the B-2, again designed as a supplement to the B-52 and capable of flying to target completely unseen on enemy...
Built by Jack Bally, this 33% scale B-17 Flying Fortress is actually a man-carrying EAA certified experimental home-built aircraft. The Bally Bomber B-17 made it’s debut during 2018 AirVenture and was put up for sale in 2018. The aircraft returned to AirVenture 2021 piloted by her new ...
While some A-26As were produced, the primary versions were the gun-nose A-26B and the glass-nose A-26C, with a total of over 2500 Invaders built. Shortly after WWII, an A-26 established a world speed record with payload over a 1000 km course. What confuses many people is the ...
Number built: 12,731 Unit cost: US$238,329 Variants: XB-38 Flying Fortress, YB-40 Flying Fortress, C-108 Flying Fortress, Boeing 307 (Image: Model 299 NX13372) The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC...
Number built: 3,970 Unit cost: US$639,188 (Image: YB-29 Superfortresses in flight) The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber that was flown by the United States Military in World War II and the Korean War, and by other nations afterwards. The name...
the initial bomber variant, being placed with Avro, Handley Page, and Short Brothers; for British needs alone, English Electric produced 196 B.2s, Avro and Handley Page manufactured 75 each, and Short completed 60 aircraft – the B.2 variant of the Canberra exceeded the numbers built of any...
The Consolidated B-24J Liberator with the serial number 44-40973 "Dragon and his Tail" is one of the most famous of the machines painted by Bartigian on Ie Shima. The bomber survived all missions. Skipper Joe Pagoni, whose crew had flown the plane on most of the 85 missions recorded,...
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry outperformed both competitors and more than met the Air Corp...