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Description
| Manufacturer: | Boeing | |
| Base model: | B-29 | |
| Designation: | YB-29 | |
| Nickname: | Superfortress | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1924-Present | |
| Basic role: | Bomber | |
| Status: | Prototype | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| Jack Wiese , TX | My father was a CFC gunner on B-29s with the 462nd, 769th
He was in Victoria Kansas in late '43 early '44. He bailed out of a YB-29 41-36967 on 1-29-44. The Plane was destroyed in the crash landing. All crew bailed, the pilot survived. 06/23/2011 @ 14:06 [ref: 39747] |
| Dick Hagerty , FL | My late father was the Flight Engineer on the Spirit of Lincoln, my 84 year old mother has passed on to me some
photo's of the Spirit of Lincoln with flight crew that belonged to my father. I would like to share. Maybe someone out there has some photo's of B-29 aircraft under going testing at the Aeronautics Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio during the war. 10/17/2010 @ 17:39 [ref: 31505] |
| Capt. Henry R. Staeben, USAF.Ret. , WI | I WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 444TH BOMB GROUP, GREAT BEND, KS. IN JULY OF 1943. ON AUGUST 17TH, 1943, WITH COL. ALVA HARVEY AS THE COMMAND PILOT,I AND THREE OTHER PILOTS MADE THE FIRST FLIGHT, OF THIS AIRCRAFT #41-36957. AFTER COL. HARVEY'S DEMONSTRATION WE EACH MADE A TAKE-OFF, CLIMBED TO 10,000 FT. AND DID TURNS, GLIDES AND POWER OFF STALLS AND THEN LANDED. WHENEVER IT WAS IN COMMISSION WE TOOK TURNS FLYING IT UNTIL I WAS TRANSFERED TO THE 468TH AT SALINA, KS.
THIS YB HAD 3-BLADE PROPS. THE ENGINES WERE RESTRICTED TO 2000-H.P. SETTINGS. THE RADAR DOME WAS MISSING. IT CRUISED AT 215 MPH. THE PRODUCTION MODELS WERE 210 MPH. ALL OF THE COCKPIT GLASS WAS CURVED, WHICH RESULTED IN CONSIDERABLE DISTORTION. THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE OF INTEREST. 11/30/2007 @ 06:40 [ref: 18730] |
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