Quiz time! Which secret American military project during World War II proved even more expensive than the $2 billion Manhattan Project which developed U.S. atomic bombs? That would be the $3 billion B ...

3 Key Points: The Boeing B-50 Superfortress, an evolution of the WWII-era B-29, led the U.S. Strategic Air Command’s nuclear deterrence fleet in the late 1940s. Featuring a more powerful Pratt & ...

Seventeen hundred miles south of its Alaskan base, and only 25 miles from Kamchatka, the long tongue of Soviet territory that hangs down from eastern Siberia, a U.S. four-engine B50 bomber sighted two ...

Every once in a while, the U.S. Air Force lets out their inner petrolhead. During the tail end of World War II and the Cold War especially, taking an existing airframe and fitting more powerful ...

In fiscal 1949 and 1950, said Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington, the Air Force would spend $1,345,165,000 for new planes. New Navy orders swelled the total to nearly $2 billion for 3,366 planes.