B-52A, KC-97, B-47, B-29, B-17 and XB-52 at a Boeing Field Open House Event, circa 1955

YB-52 Stratofortress Prototype Landing

YB-52 Stratofortress Prototype on Runway

YB-52 Stratofortress and B-17G Flying Fortress on Boeing Field flight Ramp

YB-52 Stratofortress Prototype in Flight

YB-52 Stratofortress Parked in Front of Flight Test Hangar

B-52 Stratofotresses at Boeing Field

Wright Field Movie Unit with XB-47 Stratojet

XB-52 Stratofortress at the Boeing Flight Test Hangar

B-52 Stratofortress in Boeing Flight Test Hangar

XB-52 Stratofortress with Dash 80 in Flight Test Hangar

XB-52 Stratofortress at the Boeing Flight Test Hangar

XB-47 Stratojet Radio Car

Boeing Field Flight Test Hangar at Night

Boeing Flight Test Hangar with XB-52 Stratofortresss and B-29 Mothership

XB-47 Stratojet Rollout

KC-97 and XB-52 Stratofortress in Boeing Flight Test Hangar

XB-52 Stratofortress in New Flight Test Hangar

XB-47 Stratojet First Takeoff

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YB-52 Stratofortress with B-47 Stratojet at Boeing Field

The original XB-52 design, selected by the Army Air Forces in 1946, was for a straight-wing, six-engine, propeller-powered heavy bomber. On Oct. 21, 1948, Boeing Chief Engineer Ed Wells and his design team were in Dayton, Ohio, when the Air Force's chief of bomber development told them to scrap the propellers and come up with an all-jet bomber. Over the following weekend, in a Dayton hotel room, the team designed a new eight-engine jet bomber, still called the B-52, made a scale model out of balsa wood and prepared a 33-page report. This effort impressed the Air Force's Air Material Command, and the design was approved.

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Boeing ID p13617

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