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KB-29/KB-50 Tanker
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KB-29P and B-29 Superfortress In-Flight Refueling
In 1948, Boeing reactivated its Wichita plant, nearly idle since the war ended, to convert B-29s into KB-29M tankers. The KB-29Ms used a hose-type aerial fueling requiring a slow airspeed and which was difficult in poor weather. Boeing developed the flying boom, an aerodynamically controlled swiveling and telescoping arm that a crew member, using cockpit-like flight controls, guided into a receptacle on top of the receiving aircraft's fuselage. KB-29P tankers, B-29s equipped with the Boeing flying boom, began operation in 1950. The boom became the primary method of aerial fueling and was later used on KC-97s and K-135 jet tankers.
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Unique identifier
BI228855
Boeing ID
p9494
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5100px × 3950px 19MB
License type
RM
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1940s
air to air
airplanes
B-29 Superfortress (Model 345)
B-50 (Model 345-2-1)
B-50D
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full body views
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KB-29 Tanker
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