Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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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:
(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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The cross streets of an entire generation……
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.
Eenie, meenie, miney, mo,
Stab a GI down there low.
If he hollers make him pay,
Half his salary everyday…
