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North American B-45A Tornado
Low Slung.
Copy #8, the oldest jet the museum has
Low Slung.
Copy #8, the oldest jet the museum has
Category Photography / Scenery
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 2000 x 1339px
File Size 803.1 kB
I was using my primary lens, a AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED.
I have a couple others but the kind of photos I like to take seem to work best with this glass.
This was the first time I've ever seen this aircraft as well. What's really striking about it is how low slung it is. I took this right at eye level which puts the tip of its nose in the 5 foot level.
Here's a bit of data on it from the museum:
"The North American B-45 was the first jet bomber put into production. Designed and built in the late 1940's, was one of America's first operational bombers to employ jet propulsion. Designed during 1944 and 1945, the straight-wing Tornado was the first jet bomber in service with the U.S. Air Force and was the first four-jet aircraft to fly in the United States.
Other versions include the longer-range B-45C with wing-tip tanks and the photoreconnaissance version, the RB-45C.
Rated as a light bomber by modern-day standards, it was the first four-jet aircraft to drop an atom bomb and the first to be refueled in midair.
The Tornado saw service for only ten years, from 1948 to 1958 and was meant as a replacement for the World War II B-25s and B-26s of the new Tactical Air Command. The B-45 never saw combat. A different version of the B-45, the RB-45C was used briefly as a reconnaissance aircraft in the early days of the Korean War. 40 B-45Cs were modified to carry nuclear weapons starting in 1950. After 1958, they were relegated to such duties as target tow aircraft, or control aircraft for drones, such as the Kawasaki KAQ-1 Drone also on display at Castle. Most were phased out of service by 1959."
I have a couple others but the kind of photos I like to take seem to work best with this glass.
This was the first time I've ever seen this aircraft as well. What's really striking about it is how low slung it is. I took this right at eye level which puts the tip of its nose in the 5 foot level.
Here's a bit of data on it from the museum:
"The North American B-45 was the first jet bomber put into production. Designed and built in the late 1940's, was one of America's first operational bombers to employ jet propulsion. Designed during 1944 and 1945, the straight-wing Tornado was the first jet bomber in service with the U.S. Air Force and was the first four-jet aircraft to fly in the United States.
Other versions include the longer-range B-45C with wing-tip tanks and the photoreconnaissance version, the RB-45C.
Rated as a light bomber by modern-day standards, it was the first four-jet aircraft to drop an atom bomb and the first to be refueled in midair.
The Tornado saw service for only ten years, from 1948 to 1958 and was meant as a replacement for the World War II B-25s and B-26s of the new Tactical Air Command. The B-45 never saw combat. A different version of the B-45, the RB-45C was used briefly as a reconnaissance aircraft in the early days of the Korean War. 40 B-45Cs were modified to carry nuclear weapons starting in 1950. After 1958, they were relegated to such duties as target tow aircraft, or control aircraft for drones, such as the Kawasaki KAQ-1 Drone also on display at Castle. Most were phased out of service by 1959."
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