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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
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.
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Strange reason is was called a B50.
Congress...
The B29 needed an update, bigger engines, etc.
Congress was not allowing the Military to do updates at the end of the war when exiting B29 were being scrapped. Only NEW, NEW, NEW.
So, they just called it a B50, got funding and all was good.