McConnell Air Force Base
Videos
McConnell Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. The airbase was named in honor of the brothers Fred and Thomas McConnell of Wichita, who had both been Air Force pilots and veterans of World War II. It is the home of Air Mobility Command's 22nd Air Refueling Wing, Air Force Reserve Command's 931st Air Refueling Wing, and the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th Wing.
Several KC-135R Stratotankers on the apron at McConnell AFB during 2013.
Kansas Aviation Museum, formerly Wichita Municipal Airport from 1935 to 1951
Boeing-Wichita B-29 Assembly Line – 1944
B-47A pilots training at Wichita's McConnell AFB in 1955. The planes were built across the runway at Boeing.
Boeing B-47 Stratojet
Videos
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within the Soviet Union.
Seven B-47A at Boeing's Wichita plant, January 1951
The first Boeing XB-47 built (46-0065) on 1 December 1947
B-47B using JATO bottles to reduce takeoff distance