12/08/2020 The good old days.
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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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12/08/2020 The good old days.
Slight inaccuracy. The total cost of the program, not just development, but also including production of 3,970 aircraft cost more than the Manhattan project that produced two bombs - $3B vs $2B. Each B29 cost around $639,000. They were extremely effective even before putting the final nail in the coffin, so to speak. They flew anywhere between 50-120 on a single raid, over 20,000 missions.
(edit- Boeing states as many as 1000 attacked Tokyo in a single attack on Tokyo. Remember, they were based all over Asia and India, as well as the Pacific. The largest number I can find from another source is 520.)
As this is a pic thread:
(this last image is the devastation in Tokyo from incendiary bombing March 9/10, 1945 - 279 B-29's in this attack.)
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At the marina where my father kept his boat in Jersey City, there was a fellow that offered "Seaplane" rides. Basically he would take off from Newark Bay, and circle around so you could see all the different sights around the area (NYC, Statue of Liberty, etc. etc.), and then land back in Newark Bay. Total time about 12-15 minutes. This, when he actually didn't have charters to do (he did those as well). He did it in a Cessna 172. He was really a fantastic person. He gave me free rides (I'd sit in the back when another family would be paying).
It turns out he was a B-29 pilot in WW2 and had a bunch of pictures. It was fantastic to see.
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Do you always have a chamber flag on the dash?
Slight inaccuracy. The total cost of the program, not just development, but also including production of 3,970 aircraft cost more than the Manhattan project that produced two bombs - $3B vs $2B. Each B29 cost around $639,000. They were extremely effective even before putting the final nail in the coffin, so to speak. They flew anywhere between 50-120 on a single raid, over 20,000 missions.
(edit- Boeing states as many as 1000 attacked Tokyo in a single attack on Tokyo. Remember, they were based all over Asia and India, as well as the Pacific. The largest number I can find from another source is 520.)
As this is a pic thread:
(this last image is the devastation in Tokyo from incendiary bombing March 9/10, 1945 - 279 B-29's in this attack.)
Weren't some surplus B-29s retrofitted with meteorological instruments and used by hurricane trackers to "punch the eyewall" on storms in the 1980s?
They are extremely rugged and durable aircraft. Happy to see that a good number of them have been restored and flown by living history groups just like the giant steam locomotives of the Union Pacific and Norfolk & Western railways...
They produced weather monitoring (WB-29) in the 50's, and it became the first to fly into a hurricane.
They also adapted some to be used as tankers (late 40's), and also reconnaissance (which was during WWII).
I don’t know about hurricane mods, but some were modified for environmental monitoring of russkie radioactive fallout. The first one to detect fallout is sleeping on the bottom of a pond at Eielson AFB in Fairbanks, AK.
The Lady of the Lake
B-29 (The Lady Of The Lake) 44-83905
B-29A BN Boeing-Renton B-29A-70BN c/n 11691 44-62214 Lady Of The Lake Submerged in pond on Eielson AFB, Alaska. Name not original to this aircraft and is simply a name the aircraft is referred to as. on 1949 a flight from Yokohama Japan to Alaska, it detected Radioactive fallout from the nearby...
Lady Of The Lake: The Ghostly Remains of a B-29 Superfortress
That is hilarious. My guess is most people won’t figure this out.
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Eat bannanas before hand. They taste the same comming up as they do going down.
Felt bad for him so I let him borrow my wiener
I’m going to need photos from behind also to make a decision
Whoever created this GIF, and didn't set it to repeat itself, needs to be shot.
