Looking back at you!

pretty wild , one false move and its over.

Yes, and I was sitting in the little round blister on the side of the KB50J taking pictures of the guys refueling. See the other posts for those pictures.

BTW, I saw one of the KB50Js lose an outboard jet engine once. I was on the ground, and the engine fell right on the runway from the plane which was about 1000 - 2000 ft up.

Oh, so the KB50J is a B-29 with outboard jet engines on the wings in addition to the Wright ?Cyclones? inboard....

Mike;

Different entirely AFAIK. Larger wings to suppor the load and speed, larger body to hold the fuel, and etc.

PE