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25 photos and 1 illustration tagged b50, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• aircraft
• bomber
• aviation
• boeingsuperfortress
• boeingb50
• boeing
• airplane
• militaryaviation
• boeingb50superfortress
• b50superfortress
• superfortress
• pw
• prattwhitney
• r4360
• waspmajor
• prattwhitneyr4360waspmajor
• prattwhitneyr4360
• prattwhitneywaspmajor
• r4360waspmajor
• usaf
• usairforce
• unitedstatesairforce
• aeronautics
• sdasm

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• NASA on The Commons 1 photo / illustration

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Boeing XB-44 US Air Force photo

from SDASM Archives

• airmanisr2 said:

  XB-44 One B-29A was handed over to Pratt & Whitney to be used as a testbed for the installation of the new Wasp Major 28-cylinder engines in the B-29

Lockheed Q-5 [mfr via RJF]

from SDASM Archives

• tim_zukas said:

  How many B-29s had that kind of nacelle?

• Michael Sowsun said:

  Only 6.

Boeing B-50D-95

from SDASM Archives

• Eagle0025 said:

  B-50D-95-BO, s/n 48-096. Converted to EB-50D mothership for Bell X-2 program. Bell X-2, s/n 46-675, exploded while being carried by this aircraft during a captive liquid oxygen top off test on 12 May 1953. The X-2 had to be jettisoned and crashed into Lake Ontario. Sadly, Bell test pilot Jean "Skip" Ziegler was still strapped in the X-2 cockpit when it was dropped. Bell flight engineer Frank Wolko apparently also fell from the EB-50 in the explosion. Neither body was recovered. The EB-50D made an emergency landing at Niagara Falls Airport, NY, but was DBR and never flew again.