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    The Boeing YB-9 was the first all-metal monoplane bomber aircraft designed for the United States Army Air Corps. The YB-9 was a much enlarged twin-engine...
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    and DRT). Boeing YB-9 Boeing XB-15 (1 prototype) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress Boeing C-108 Flying...
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  • aircraft, the B-47 Stratojet. The original designation for this modification was YB-47C. The B-47 was equipped with six General Electric J47 turbojets, each rated...
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    The Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modification for operational testing purposes of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, converted to act as...
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    The Boeing B-54 was an American strategic bomber designed by Boeing for use by the United States Air Force. Derived from the YB-50C Superfortress, construction...
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    ISSN 0262-6950 "Boeing YB-29 Superfortress". Archived from the original on 2004-10-13. Retrieved 2004-11-15. Baugher's Encyclopedia YB-29 "Boeing B-29 Superfortress"...
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    6-passenger cabin. In 1931, the Monomail design became the foundation of the Boeing YB-9, the first all-metal, cantilever-wing, monoplane bomber. Five examples...
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    official. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boeing YB-17. Though still enthusiastic about the Boeing design, despite it being disqualified from the...
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    V/1500 (7,500 lb (3,400 kg)) Sikorsky Ilya Muromets (1,100 lb (500 kg)) Boeing YB-9 (prototype strategic bomber, inspiration for the B-17) Martin B-10 (successors...
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    Flying Fortress Related development Boeing XB-15 Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress Related lists...
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    The Boeing Model 200 Monomail was an American mail plane of the early 1930s. The aircraft marked a departure from the traditional biplane configuration...
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    The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is an American strategic bomber. A post–World War II revision of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, it was fitted with more...
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    problems Northrop Corporation was experiencing with their YB-35 and YB-49 flying wing bombers, Boeing insisted on a conventional aircraft, and in April 1948...
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    13 Dornier Do 23 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing YB-9 Handley Page Heyford Related lists List of interwar military aircraft...
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    The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered heavy bomber developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after World War II for service with the...
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    The Northrop YB-35/XB-35, Northrop designation N-9 or NS-9, were experimental heavy bomber aircraft developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United...
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    "Variable Discharge Turbine" 4,300 hp (3,210 kW). Intended for B-36C. Used on Boeing YB-50C Superfortress. R-4360-53 - 3,800 hp (2,800 kW) R-4360-B3 - 3,500 hp...
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  • Prototype 3 Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger US Maritime patrol 1942 Prototype 1 Boeing YB-9 US Heavy bomber 1931 Operational 7 Bolkhovitinov DB-A USSR Heavy bomber...
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    ran into development or production difficulties. Starting life as the first YB-29 delivered to the United States Army Air Forces, it was sent in November...
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    numerous aircraft engine ever produced. Bellanca C-27 Airbus Boeing Monomail Boeing YB-9 Consolidated Commodore Consolidated Fleetster Fokker F-32 Keystone...
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    variants and other historical information Delivery of the first YB-29 test aircraft (YB-29-BW 41-36954) to the USAAF was made in June 1943, being delivered...
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    The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during...
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    by any foreign service. YB-47C / RB-47C / B-47Z / B-56 A four-engined variant of the B-47, the YB-47C was proposed by Boeing in 1950 to be powered by...
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    The result was the B-36G, later renamed the Convair YB-60. The YB-60 was inferior to Boeing's YB-52, and was terminated. The B-36 was the basis for the...
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    OA-1, Boeing PW-9, Boeing P-12, Boeing P-26 Peashooter, Curtiss AT-5 Hawk, Consolidated PT-1 Trusty, Douglas BT-2, and apparently Boeing YB-9, Martin...
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  • B9 (redirect from B-9)
    steam locomotive model Bensen B-9, a 1958 American small helicopter Boeing B-9 (sometimes referred to as the Y1B-9 or YB-9), a 1931 United States Army Air...
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    Martin B-10 (redirect from Martin YB-10)
    Whitney YR-1830-9 "Twin Wasp" radial engines, one built which was converted back to YB-12 after testing. A-15 Proposed attack variant of the YB-10 with two...
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    The Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress was an American transport aircraft used during World War II. Four were converted from B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers...
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    Early on, the contract was modified to build a pair of XB-58 prototypes, 11 YB-58A preproduction aircraft, and 31 mission pods including a free-fall bomb...
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    hoax claiming that Boeing had developed a 1000-passenger jetliner (the "Boeing 797") with a "radical Blended Wing design" and Boeing refuted the claim...
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