Word: b29
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base, a big, swept-wing B-47 whistled out of the east and flashed in to land. As fast as the Canberra and much bigger (it weighs more than a B29, can carry ten tons of bombs), the Stratojet is still highly secret. The Air Force cautiously admitted that it had made the 2,400-mile flight from the U.S. mainland in something under six hours-an average speed of over 400 m.p.h...
...flying laboratory," General Electric Co. gives striking proof of the power of a jet engine. To test a new jet G.E. slings it under the bomb bay of a heavy B29. With its four 2,400-h.p. piston engines roaring, the bomber takes off and climbs to high altitude. Then the jet is started and its performance studied under varying conditions of speed, air density and temperature...
...crude bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rush jobs intended to be carried in a B29. There was little reason to keep their weight down, since the B-29s of the time could carry 20,000 lbs. from Saipan to the target. Long after Nagasaki, the weight of the first bombs leaked out. It was about...
Soviet fighters over the open sea. Demanded: punishment for the offenders and indemnity for loss of ten U.S. lives and property. Received: (three days later) a flat Soviet refusal, which insisted that the plane was not a Privateer but a "B29 Flying Fortress," and had been caught taking pictures over Latvia. The State Department went to work on another note repeating U.S. demands...