And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Upgraded B-29. That was a B-50 Superfortress modified for the Bell X-1 test program. Under the B-50 was the Bell X-1-3. Both planes were destroyed in a fire during a defueling incident following this flight November 9, 1951.
You would think it would be easier just to fabricate longer gear struts. So what if they stick out the back when retracted... or just leave the gear down.
The concept that they decided to just rip up the hardpan, and install massive hydraulic lifts, synched to pick the B-29 up 20', and then repour the flightline around them, as the shortest distance between two points, shows that we were a different people back in the post-war 1940s.
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ReplyDeleteI think I got me a stick...
DeleteI'm still tryin' to figger out what's behind it....
ReplyDeleteIt appears to be a B-45.
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Canberra?
DeleteB-45 Tornado
DeleteLooks like the XB1 being loaded. Hard to see but the one way back could be a Convair B36 early jet with pusher props.
ReplyDeleteCanberra?...No North American..........
ReplyDeleteIt does look like a 45 but where’s the rest of the wing?
DeleteThat is a B29 with the early XB1 liquid fuel sound barrier plane.
ReplyDeleteUpgraded B-29. That was a B-50 Superfortress modified for the Bell X-1 test program. Under the B-50 was the Bell X-1-3. Both planes were destroyed in a fire during a defueling incident following this flight November 9, 1951.
ReplyDeleteCool pic. Never seen that before thanks CW
ReplyDeleteYou would think it would be easier just to fabricate longer gear struts. So what if they stick out the back when retracted... or just leave the gear down.
ReplyDeleteThe concept that they decided to just rip up the hardpan, and install massive hydraulic lifts, synched to pick the B-29 up 20', and then repour the flightline around them, as the shortest distance between two points, shows that we were a different people back in the post-war 1940s.
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