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Bernoulli 777
Yes on the gate check of bags.
How do you mean yes? Yes, in that I will be gate checking something duffle-sized?
USAF Museum's fact sheet says that only two were built, and FWIW, Enola Gay was a B-29. I'm proud to say that I own Gen. Tibbett's autograph.
Originally Posted by USAF Museum
The XB-70, one of the world's most exotic airplanes, was conceived for the Strategic Air Command in the 1950s as a high-altitude bomber that could fly three times the speed of sound (Mach 3). Because of fund limitations, only two were built, not as bombers, but as research aircraft for the advanced study of aerodynamics, propulsion and other subjects related to large supersonic aircraft.
The B-36 was famous for entirely something else...B-36 had ten engines, hence the tagline "Six turning/four burning" because of its having six props and four jets.
Udvar-Hazy is very much on my list, but I'm waiting to do a DC trip until Natural History comes out of renovation, which IIRC is this summer.