B-29 Superfortress: How It Works

This video shows pilots performing starting, cockpit control explanations, take off and cruising a B-29 Superfortress to altitude. The B-29 is a four-engine propeller-driven design
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B-29 “Doc” Rolled Out After Refurbishment

Seventy years ago today in 1945, a B-29, one of 1,644 manufactured in Wichita during World War II, rolled off the assembly line at Boeing and was delivered to the U.S. Army Air For
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Story of finding the B-29 Superfortress ‘Kee-Bird’ in Greenland

Article courtesy of War History Online. The “Kee Bird” was a United States Army Air Forces B-29-95-BW Superfortress, 45-21768, of the 46th Reconnaissance Squadron, that
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Wichita Business Leaders Take the B-29 Doc Restoration Under Their Wing

A vintage B-29 has been given a new lease on life by a group of Wichita, Kansas, business leaders who are determined to see the airplane restored to flying condition. A new non-pro
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