Nose Art

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Albeit a painting…

 

[67newport]

 

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The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is a post–World War II revision of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, it was fitted with more powerful Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radial engines, stronger structure, a taller tail fin, and other improvements.
This had the same engines that pushed the B-36.

 

[Snotty]

To distinguish it from the B-29, this was the Super Fortress, not Superfortress. My dad's favorite plane and engine! I have a picture of him standing in front of the B-50 at the Castle Museum in Atwater, California.

 

[67newport]

 

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AT-11 Kansan

 

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[Snotty]

I realize with the end of the war there's no need for these anymore, but it still seems such a waste. I know Boeing tried to sell the B-17 as a commuter plane. Didn't catch on.

 

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"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "f*ck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"

Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
Pictured: Pussy Galore II - A Thud back from the days before PC ruled the skies...
Sierrahotel.net

 

[Snotty]

Ha!! I bet the guy in the KC that filled it had fun!!

 

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The midatlanticairmuseum's P-61 Black Widow restoration was on display at their annual WW II Weekend, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Work continues in an effort to return this one of a kind airplane to flight. P-61B 42-39445, assigned to the 550th Night Fighter Squadron, crashed on the side of Mt. Cyclops in New Guinea on January 10, 1945. After years of planning and executing the recovery, it arrived at the museum in April of 1991. Now, with engines and propellers hung, the next step in the restoration will be completing the wings as it gets closer and closer to hopefully one day taking to the skies.