B-52 Stratofortress / NASANASA Boeing B 52 airplane model. NASA has a new "mothership" aircraft, a former U. S. Air Force (USAF) B 52H bomber that has been modified into a flight research vehicle launch aircraft. Now, the bomber turned mothership joins NASA's other B 52, the famous "NASA 008," in air launching some of NASA's most advanced aerospace vehicles. NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, working with the USAF, modified the B 52H by first removing the aircraft's

the last of them being redelivered on June 29

slightly upturned nose

during the first few months of the Pacific War

it shares its wing with the FJ-1 Fury

This was no greater percentage than for the French and British-built airplanes used by the A

Inspired by the performance of the Grumman Goose during WWII

The Greif (Griffin) was the only long-range heavy bomber built by the Luftwaffe in World War II in significant numbers

(These flaps are not incorporated in the wings of the T-38

Discover the beauty of the B-1 Lancer

turning these airships into flying aircraft carriers

In August 1952

From the daring 1943 Ploesti oil refinery strike launched from North Africa to grueling Pacific Theater missions spanning vast ocean distances