mw5
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Post by mw5 on Feb 1, 2013 18:28:24 GMT 1
This is a really poor quality photo but I know you experts are really good at these. This was in a bundle from a possible Burtonwood Air Show day from the 1950s? Any details on this photo would be most welcome... Attachments:
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Post by john1958 on Feb 1, 2013 19:07:34 GMT 1
Looks like a pair of either KB-29's or KB-50's!!!!
John
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Post by mw5 on Feb 1, 2013 19:43:34 GMT 1
Am not an expert on military topics but these wouldn't have been based at Burtonwood would they?
Could they have been doing a fly-by from another base?
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Post by donboy on Feb 1, 2013 20:56:14 GMT 1
WB-50 "Hurricane Hunters" operated from Burtonwood in the 1950s.
There is no reference to tankers in Aldon Ferguson's books on Burtonwood.
Don
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Post by viscount on Feb 2, 2013 12:04:46 GMT 1
Looking on wikipedia and a quick 'Google', the pair of Superfortress aircraft certainly appear to be KB-50J - the fuselage extending well beyond the rudder/fin base, auxiliary jet engines on the wings and the near wing-tip refuelling hose pods. The WB-50D, which were the aircraft based at Burtonwood, had none of these features. KB = air-to-air tanker variant of a bomber design, WB = weather reconnaissance variant of a bomber design.
See no reason to doubt Burtonwood as a location though - the base had a great number of transiting aircraft from/to USA, and held Armed Forces Day air displays. Although it could equally be any other USAF AFD display. You hint that this is one of a series of USAF shots - are there a background of buildings in any of the others?
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Post by viscount on Feb 2, 2013 15:03:05 GMT 1
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