The Budd Big Dome — officially the "Hi-Level Dome" in Santa Fe parlance — was built by the Budd Company in 1954 as the centerpiece of the Santa Fe's re-equipped Super Chief and El Capitan consists
Flying the same airframe that had dropped the atomic bombs on Japan just years earlier
giving the public a rare close look at one of aviation's most distinctive and beloved combat aircraft
the largest and heaviest aircraft ever designed to operate from an aircraft carrier
This is a 1/400 scale photo-realistic ground mat for a Model of the Monterey California Regional Airport (KMRY)
Boeing (Vega) B-17G 44-85774 The Budd Big Dome —These are 1 72 scale decals for Boeing (Vega) B 17G 44 85774, serving postwar with the 4136th Base Unit, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, United States Air Force. By the late 1940s, surviving B 17Gs had transitioned from frontline combat bombers to a variety of support, training, and administrative roles under the newly independent USAF. Tinker Field now Tinker Air Force Base was a major Air Materiel Command depot, and B 17s assigned to base units there