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Bomber B
Bomber B was a 1939 German Air Ministry program for a twin-engined medium bomber to replace the Ju 88 and He 111, canceled in 1943 when its new engines never matured.
Bombing of Chongqing
The Bombing of Chongqing, known in China as the Chongqing Great Bombing (重庆大轰炸), was a Japanese strategic bombing campaign against China's wartime capital from 1938 to 1943 that killed more than 23,000 people.
Bombing of Kobe
The bombing of Kobe (神戸空襲) was the 1945 series of B-29 air attacks by the United States on the Japanese port city of Kobe, including five major raids.
Bombings of Soviet and Russian airliners
Bombings of Soviet and Russian airliners are attacks in which explosives were placed aboard Soviet and Russian civil aircraft, most notably the 2004 double bombing that killed 89 people.
Boom Overture
Boom Overture, also called the Boom Technology Overture, is a proposed supersonic airliner carrying 64 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7, with 130 orders from United, American, and Japan Airlines.
Boom Technology
Boom Technology, known as Boom Supersonic, is an American aerospace startup founded by Blake Scholl in 2014 in Denver, Colorado, developing the Overture supersonic passenger airliner.
Boom XB-1
Boom XB-1 is a one-third-scale supersonic demonstrator built by Boom Supersonic to validate designs for its planned Overture airliner, first flying in March 2024 at Mojave, California.
Boryspil International Airport (Міжнародний аеропорт «Бориспіль»)
Boryspil International Airport, also known as Kyiv Boryspil Airport, is Ukraine's largest airport, serving the capital. Closed to civil traffic since Russia's February 2022 invasion, it handled about 60 percent of Ukraine's passengers before the war.
Boulton Paul Defiant
The Boulton Paul Defiant was a British two-seat turret fighter of the Second World War, with four machine guns in a dorsal turret and no forward-firing guns.
Bounce (film)
Bounce is a 2000 American romantic drama written and directed by Don Roos, starring Ben Affleck as a man who falls for the widow of a plane crash victim, played by Gwyneth Paltrow.
Brace position
The brace position, also called the crash position, is a protective posture aircraft passengers and crew assume before impact or ditching to reduce head and limb injuries.
Bradley International Airport
Bradley International Airport, also known as Bradley Airport, is a public airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, serving the Hartford–Springfield region with about 6.7 million passengers in 2024.
Braniff International Airways
Braniff International Airways, also known as Braniff Airways, was a major US airline founded by the Braniff brothers in Oklahoma City in 1928, serving Latin America before ceasing operations in 1982.
Brantly International
Brantly International, also known as Brantly Helicopter Corporation, is an American light-helicopter maker founded in Philadelphia in 1945, known for the two-seat B-2 and five-seat 305.
Brasília International Airport
Brasília International Airport, officially Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília – Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek, is the airport serving Brasília, Brazil's federal capital. Opened in 1957, it is one of Brazil's busiest airports.
Breeze Airways
Breeze Airways is an American low-cost airline founded by JetBlue founder David Neeleman and based in Salt Lake City, which began flying in 2021, connecting smaller U.S. cities with nonstop routes other airlines do not serve.
Breguet Atlantic
The Breguet Atlantic (Br.1150) is a twin-turboprop maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft designed in France to a NATO specification and first flown at Toulouse in October 1961.
Brewster F2A Buffalo
The Brewster F2A Buffalo was a U.S. Navy carrier-based fighter, the Navy's first monoplane fighter, which failed in combat in 1942 but excelled in Finnish service.
Brian Milton
Brian Milton is a British adventurer, journalist, and aviation historian who made the first circumnavigation of the globe by microlight aircraft in 1998, winning the Britannia Trophy.
Brian Shul
Brian Shul (1948–2023) was a US Air Force major who flew the SR-71 Blackbird, known for recovering from severe burns after being shot down in Vietnam.
Brisbane Airport
Brisbane Airport (IATA: BNE), formerly Eagle Farm Aerodrome, is the primary airport for Brisbane and South East Queensland, Australia, its third busiest, operating around the clock with no curfew.
Bristol 188
The Bristol 188 was a British twin-engined supersonic research aircraft, nicknamed Flaming Pencil, built to study kinetic heating; it first flew in 1962, never reaching its design speed.
Bristol Airport
Bristol Airport, also known as Bristol International Airport, is an airport at Lulsgate in North Somerset, England, serving Bristol, the South West, and South Wales since 1957.
Bristol Beaufighter
The Bristol Beaufighter was a British twin-engine heavy fighter built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the RAF's first radar night fighter, with 5,562 built by 1945.
Bristol Beaufort
The Bristol Beaufort, also called the Beaufort bomber, was a British twin-engined torpedo bomber of the Second World War, standard with RAF Coastal Command from 1939 to 1943.
Bristol Blenheim
The Bristol Blenheim, also known as the Blenheim bomber, was a British three-seat twin-engine light bomber built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, serving with the RAF from 1937.
Bristol Brabazon
The Bristol Brabazon was a large British propeller-driven transatlantic airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company; its sole prototype first flew in 1949, but it never entered airline service.
Bristol Britannia
The Bristol Britannia (Bristol Type 175) was a British four-engine turboprop airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the first long-range turboprop airliner, nicknamed the "Whispering Giant."
Bristol Bulldog
The Bristol Bulldog was a British single-seat biplane fighter built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the Royal Air Force's standard fighter through the first half of the 1930s.
Bristol F.2 Fighter
The Bristol F.2 Fighter, or Bristol F.2B, was a British two-seat biplane fighter of the First World War, first flown in 1916 and flown like a single-seat fighter.