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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.
 
Interesting fact about the B29 program, it cost more than the atomic bomb to develop.
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:

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(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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Interesting fact about the B29 program, it cost more than the atomic bomb to develop.

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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fathers uncle was joined the army at 15 for WW2 got caught during basic..army told him navy will take anyone right now (this was shortly after pearl harbor)

turned 16 in basic, was then on the NJ in a 5" mount

after WW2 his younger brother was drafted in the army for korea so he said he'll go and watch over him

dumped his rank in the navy so they were together

he used to say he wasnt sure what was worse sweating in a floating target or sleeping in a "fucking hole filled with snow"

...all he did was talk about the New Jersey, had tons of stories, models all over the house, pictures

wife used to yell that he loved that boat more than her, hed answer your right.. old school marriage lol

USS New Jersey - I don't know how 60,000 long-tons of displacement translates to "cans" but that is one hell of a lot of "whoop-ass."
 
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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:

B-29s-firebombs.jpg

5d01ddd7240000300f8af0c5.jpeg

ec91f06b-tokyo1945.jpg

(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...
 
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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 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).
 
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...

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.

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