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There Are About To Be Two Airworthy B-29s
For many years, only one flying example of the B-29 Superfortress has been worthy of soaring above the clouds. The B-29 is the same plane type that effectively ended World War II on the Pacific front by dropping atomic bombs on Japan. That single flyable plane, known as "Fifi" is about to be joined by her sibling, "Doc." (flightclub.jalopnik.com) さらに...
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I look forward to seeing her in my Wichita sky. I remember when I was a boy and the B 52 filled our sky... "See that tail, that's the new B 52!"; I am lucky to live in Wichita.
B29 is a great ride. Got to have a nice 1hr ride when it was up here for Refurb in the early 90s. I worked on the electrical and instruments using my EC-121 Experiance (same engines and electrical)
Loved every second of it (too short a ride though).
Loved every second of it (too short a ride though).
You Sir have a dream job. I cannot think of a better way to use one's skills other than on resurrecting these venerable old birds. Thank you for your efforts.
A B29 ride would be extremely satisfying and how interesting it must be to get to work on it.
I used to see B-52s by the dozens climbing the skies after leaving Westover AFB every morning at 5AM. At the time it was disturbing. How I miss that sound now.
I flew on the last 4 B-29's in the AF inventory out of Naha, Okinawa 1959/60. They had been converted to ECM. I still have my Sq. patch, flt orders, tail numbers and a few photo's. Doing research I discovered two of those A/C transported the mechanisms for the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan. I have been told two A/C were put on hard stands, One at Kadena, Okinawa, the other somewhere in Japan. I was the radio operator.
