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Originally Posted by kimlangley7
actually I think the B-29 morphed into the B-50 [looked just like a B-29] and later the KC-97 tanker .. one of the first air re-fueling tankers used by SAC.. I flew space-A in a KC-97 back in 1966 from Travis AFB to Bangkok, Thailand . I was in prep school in the states and my Dad was a advisor in JUSMAG Thailand.... 4 days to get there... quite a memorable trip...
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Yep. The B-50 had a lot of variants (one was the first to use the R-4360 turbo-compound engines), but was basically a modified B-29.