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B-45 Tornado
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NAA B-45A Tornado Jet Bomber

North American Aviation’s straight-wing B-45 Tornado, designed during 1944 and 1945, first flew in February 1947. It was the first jet bomber in service with the Air Force and the first four-jet airplane to fly in the United States. Versions included the longer-range B-45C with wingtip tanks and the photoreconnaissance version, the RB-45C. Rated as a light bomber by modern-day standards, it was the first four-jet aircraft to drop an atom bomb and the first to be refueled in midair. It had a wingspan of 89 feet, and it was 75 feet 11 inches long. 
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Unique identifier BI24126 
Boeing ID naa123 
Type Image 
Size 5998px Ă— 4729px   81MB 
License type RM 
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