My Name is Terrence P. O'Sullivan , My dads name is David G. O'Sullivan He was a pilot in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. I am really having a tough time finding a movie about a flight my father made. I don't know if you know the story behind the movie but I thought I would tell you what my dad told me. He was one of the first instructor pilots on the new B47s and was bringing in a new group of planes replacing the older ones. Will checking out the crews on the new 47s is when it started. There had been several crashes of new 47s on landing. They had not been able to figure out why they were crashing. Well when the 47 that my dad was in was coming in for a landing after checking the crew out the tower told them not to land because someone saw that the nose gear had not come down. Well they were kept in the air for a record amount of time and refueled more then anyone in history wile the engineers tried to figure out the problem. After a long time days they finally sent them out over the Ocean to dump any excess material that would be dangerous doing a belly landing on fome. Wile they were out there my dad said he saw the planes Shadow on a cloud and there appeared to be something hanging down on the nose. So they had a chase plane look and they saw nothing there. So the engineers started working on it and figured out the there was a small wedge like a v in front of the landing gear that was there to cut the wind so that when bombs drooped they could drop truer rather than tumble when the force of wind hit them when dropping out of the bomb bay. That wedge it turned out was causing a suction in the wheel weal and they were able to go below and do something that allowed the nose wheel to descended lock. Could you check with your sources to try and confirm any or some of this or tell me were I might try looking for a copy of the movie? Thanks for answering I haven't been able to find any help at all. Terrence P. O'Sullivan
This is his information during his time as an Instructor pilote for the B47E David G. O’Sullivan Service # A0807777 Started Instructing B47E Feb 1954 at 2nd AF (SAC) 2nd Bomber Wing 96th Squadron . Hunter A.F.B. Savannah GA until July 1954 Thin 15th AF 40th Bomber Wing 44 Squadron Smokey Hill A.F.B. Salina Kansas From Aug 1954 threw April 1955 Thin 2nd AF 6th Strat Recon Sqd (M) 70th Strat Recon Wing (M) At Lockbourne A.F.B. Columbus Ohio from May to Aug 1955 thin on to Little Rock A.F.B. Jacksonville Arkansas from Sep 1955 to Aug 1956

Are you talking about Strategic Air Command (SAC) starting Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson?? It was about something similar and an excellent movie. Personally it is one of my favorites. If you go to IMDB (internet movie database) and type in the title it can give you some more information when you look at the plot.