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Old 10-July-2005, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by die Nullte
The aircraft in the background of the photo you supplied is not a B-52. In fact, B-36 appears to be more likely, judging from the shape of the fuselage and the intake duct for one of the pusher engines.
It doesn't look like a B-52 to me either. Here is a B-52:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bo...52h-99071b.jpg

The body shape and wing attachment doesn't look the same.

Here is a B-36:

http://www.cowtown.net/proweb/xb36.htm

Note that the air intakes on the leading edge of the wing (bottom photo) looks a lot like PhantomWolf's photograph.
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