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First Flight of the XB-51, The Weirdest Plane You’ve Never Heard Of, OTD in 1949

October 28, 2020 Tom Demerly

The Enigmatic XB-51 Was Ahead of Its Time, and That May Have Ended its Program. It’s unusual for an airplane to almost completely disappear from history. Especially a pioneering aircraft that emerged at the dawn […]