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ed wells and his design team were in dayton, ohio, when the air force's chief of bomber development told them to scrap the propellers and come up with an all-jet bomber. over the following weekend, in a dayton hotel room, the team designed a new eight-engine jet bomber, still called the b- , made a scale
command, and the design was approved. as the war worsened in korea, the air force, in , designated the b- the country's next intercontinental bomber and approved an initial production order for b- s. the first b- a flew aug. , . after assembly of three b- as, production converted to b- bs, with more weight...
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