NASA WB-57WB 57 NASA airplane model. The NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas is the home of the NASA WB 57 High Altitude Research Program. Two fully operational WB 57 aircraft (converted from RB 57s) are based near JSC at Ellington Field. Both aircraft have been flying research missions since the early 1960's and continue to be an asset to the scientific community with professional, reliable, customer oriented service designed to meet all

For its fire-fighting role the CL-215 can lift 5455 liters (1440 gal

By the end of hostilities

While the first project was abandoned

Martin B-26 Marauder airplane model

and an unrefuelled range of 2

A USAF reconnaissance variant

Airbus 300 American Airlines airplane model

after having been grounded for more than two years

beginning in 1993 and culminating in October 1997 when the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess AFB flew the last nuclear mission

It carried the nickname "The Flaming Coffin" because of the supposed ease with which it could be shot down in flames but

The design was a quick success

a progression from the F4F Wildcat which was then the standard fighter of the Navy