Douglas 1211-J

The Douglas 1211-J was a heavy bomber design that Douglas developed to compete with the Boeing B-52 for a major United States Air Force contract between 1946 and 1954. The Model 1211-J was 160 feet long with a wingspan of 227 feet and was powered by four turboprop engines. It was designed around a new 43,000 pound conventional bomb but could also carry nuclear weapons, and it could carry its own fighter escorts as parasites under its wings, whose jet engines would assist the takeoff and which would be refuelled while stowed on the underwing pylons. The listed crew was nine, and its published estimates came from Aviation Week in January 1951.