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1 day ago · Design and development Before World War II, the United States Army Air Corps concluded that the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, which would be the Americans' primary strategic bomber during the war, would be inadequate for the Pacific Theater, which required a bomber that could carry a larger payload more than 3,000 miles. The length of the 141-foot (43 m) wing span of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress ...
- Boeing B-50 Superfortress
The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is an American strategic...
- 1948 Lake Mead Boeing B-29 Crash
History. On 13 September 1945, "Lake Mead's B-29", serial...
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner...
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined...
- List of Surviving Boeing B-29 Superfortresses
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a United States heavy...
- Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major
The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major is an American...
- 1950 Fairfield-Suisun Crash
Northeast of San Francisco, California, on 5 August 1950, a...
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range,...
- Boeing B-50 Superfortress
1 day ago · The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, [2] [3] with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936. [4] [5] Later, German climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981) introduced ...
1 day ago · Dymaxion world map with continental landmasses (I,II,III,IV) and largest islands (1–30) roughly to scale. This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world larger than 2,500 km 2 (970 sq mi) and most of the islands over 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi), sorted in descending order by area.
10 hours ago · Cairns is a provincial city, with a linear urban layout that runs from the south at Edmonton to the north at Ellis Beach. The city is approximately 52 km (32 mi) from north to south; it has experienced a recent urban sprawl, with suburbs occupying land once used for sugar cane farming.
10 hours ago · Norfolk Island is the main island in a group comprising the Australian external territory of Norfolk Island, situated in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand approximately 692 km (430 mi) south of New Caledonia. East Polynesians were the first to settle Norfolk Island, but they had already departed when Great Britain settled it ...
10 hours ago · Interior of the Pike Place Market location in 1977. Howard Schultz was chief executive from 1986 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2017. Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1971, and is currently the world's largest coffeehouse chain .
