B-45 Tornado takeoff

A North American XB-45 "Tornado" taxies out and takes off at Muroc (now Edwards AFB) during testing in 1947.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• North
• American
• B-45
• XB-45
• Tornado
• Test
• Flight
• Aviation

[Lud0665]

Hoppla, seh´ ich da eine Ami-Arado?

[TsurugiJiri]

Not much like the Ar 234 at all, if that's your point. Design was begun before the Allies encountered the Ar 234 in combat, and the B-45 was twice its size, four times its weight, faster and had a higher service ceiling. It did use the first American axial-flow turbojet, the GE J47.

[greenhornet59]

what a pretty airplane the B-45 was; turned out they couldnt open the bombay doors at altitude or the whole ship would buffet uncontrollably. It's only claim to fame was Daylight recon missions. The Plane was a dud.

[TsurugiJiri]

Hence the "hundred-and-a-half" acquired when most production runs were in the thousands, even post-war.

[SmiertSpionem]

Did it reach active service?

[TsurugiJiri]

142 B-45's were accepted into service and the reconnaissance version saw combat in Korea as well as performing "black" flights over the Soviet Union. Additionally, two airframes were converted for use as engine test-beds by General Electric and Westinghouse.

[kolbpilot]

It's amazing the stuff you can learn off youTube, especially in the comment section (most the time). It is also interesting how the jet engine evolved in different countries in the beginning. America was right up there in the neophyte years, with excellent creativity.

[MarinerCayPilot]

Two B-45's were also used by Pratt & Whitney as engine test beds. I flew bothn 48-010 & 48-017 for a number of years in the 60's & 70s's... I flew the last one back to the SAC Museum at Offitt AFB, on June 14th, 1972... las t flight of the aircraft

[Tyrfingr]

Operation paperclip came in effect the minute the was was ended for a good reason. The russians also snatched alot of technology. The uniforms alone were decades ahead, the helmets are in use by most western armies today with little changes.

[Tyrfingr]

Alot of their doctrines were still stuck in WW1 thinking, and progressed with the war, hence the horses. American trucks were superior to all as far as i know, im not dissing U.S stuff just because i point out the vastness of german tech.

Mortars and artillery coordination were excellent, dropped significantly as the war progressed. Radio and TV guided you might want to check that up closer, they had them. They sank a couple of ships with Air-to-ground guided missiles. Delta wing = HO-229.

[kblackav8or]

Jet aircraft were developed simultaneously and independently. To give Germany excess credit seems to be the norm but if you really know the development they were copying and using their intelligence they also sunk a lot more effort in the technology earlier so of course that yielded some results but since most of them were in tiny numbers and required highly trained technicians to operate and maintain them. They were impractical and not ready for combat and would have been ineffective.

[kblackav8or]

Actually it wasn't as much as you guys like to say. They still pulled a lot of their artillary with horses, there trucks weren't anywhere near as reliable as American ones, the Russians copied and improved on them for decades as an example. They never had a match for the Browning M2, mortars, artillery coordination, electronic warfare, aerial navigation, anti-submarine warfare, Naval Destroyer, aircraft carrier, radio controlled weapons, TV guidance, MAD, amphibious vehicles, Jeep, bulldozer..

[Tyrfingr]

Naturally i don't mean every single thing. The video is about the war, so that's the subject im reffering to. The headway the germans made in weaponry, tanks, flight and at sea were head and shoulders above the rest. And their legacy lives on to this day when looking at the arsenals. Of course they are refined and modernized today, to noones surprise.

[kblackav8or]

Right.. Or were the Germans copying someone else? I am using a mouse with my computer.. Wasn't invented by a German. Electronic Fuel Injection? American, sold to the Germans in the 1960s. Microwave oven, American. Telephone, light bulb, motion picture projector, the rocket engine which the germans copied and improved from an American. Radar was Brittish, Radio was French. Cell phone American. First production helicopter - American. Sick and tired of these false assumptions.

[Vermiliontea]

"Oh look! - It's got two wings and body! So it must be a copy of german whatever..."

You really think that's what aircraft technology is? Copying *look*?

Is there anything un-obvious about the B-45's configuration?

They just did the same mistakes that Arado did. There's not so many ways you can do this. But tech underneath is all different, they built a very much better plane than the germans anyway.

For a really GOOD configuration: B-47, Which "Luftwaffe'46" wonder is it supposed to be?

[Tyrfingr]

Definately Arado copy, as with everything else during and especially after the war. The german technology can be seen everywhere and in everything today.