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U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress dropping bombs during a training exercise Italian Caproni bomber of World War I B-29 bomber, 1945 Four U.S. Army P-51 Mustang fighter planes flying in close formation above the Italian countryside during World War II.
Watch testing of the B-47A Stratojet in 1953
Watch B-52H Stratofortress bomber flying over the Mojave Desert, California
Two F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter jets flying in formation above the rippled white sand dunes of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. B-52 The Martin P6M SeaMaster, a large jet-powered flying boat with swept wings and twin tail, marked with U.S. Navy insignia, flies above a patchwork of fields. Normandy Invasion: Allied bombardment of Pointe du Hoc
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NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
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Bomber: References & Edit History

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Media updated. Aug 28, 2026
Media added. Sep 22, 2017
Updated to clarify the role of the F-117 Nighthawk. Dec 30, 2013
Media added. Nov 13, 2008
Article revised and updated. Aug 23, 2007
Article added to new online database. May 27, 1999
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