Summary and 4 Points You Need to Know: The Boeing B-50 Superfortress was a pivotal post-World War II U.S. bomber developed as an upgrade to the B-29. First flown in ...

The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is easy to overlook among them. While this post-World War II airframe spent less than two decades in the skies before being modified as a tanker, the bomber once led ...

It was to the point where even World War II's most famous bomber was given this treatment. This is the story of the Boeing B-50 Superfortress, the iconic B-29 given the full hot rod treatment.

Boeing's B-29 ... in the case of the 1941 B-17E, equipped with an array of weapons (including Stinger turrets and .50 machine guns). The concept of an especially heavy bomber that could still ...

[Photo: Thom Patterson] Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated ... The B-29 design also was modified as the B-50 bomber, which debuted in 1947. The Korean War began on June ...

Boeing had been working secretly for three years to develop a high-capacity, high-altitude bomber ... that the B-29 program rose from the ashes of the devastating Seattle crash. The Superfortress ...

Summary and 4 Points You Need to Know: The Boeing B-50 Superfortress was a pivotal post-World War II U.S. bomber developed as an upgrade to the B-29. First flown in ...