B-29 Superfortress

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KB-29M
B-29MR

 

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North American RB-45C
Boeing KB-29P

 

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KB-29M
February 1949. Circumnavigation
B-50A (SN 46-010) Lucky Lady II

 

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Republic F-84F-20-RE
Boeing KB-29

 

[Grulla]

En la foto original dice Tu-4 N/S 2805103 en Museo Monino. Lo curioso son las insignias norteamericanas....sera un Tu-4 o un B-29 Capturado?

http://russianplanes.net/id126160

 

[Rober D]

Super Guppy de la Nasa

NASA's Super Guppy en la instalación de aterrizaje del transbordador del centro espacial Kennedy después de la finalización de la entrega y ya sin la carga del escudo térmico de la nave espacial Orion.

by OpticaLLightspeed

La oficina del Super Guppy

by OpticaLLightspeed

NASA's Super Guppy

by OpticaLLightspeed

Miembros de la tripulación retrayendo las tomas de fuselaje de nuevo en el avión.

by OpticaLLightspeed

NASA Super Guppy en el Kennedy Space Center's SLF

by OpticaLLightspeed

 

[emilioteles]

An American Mechanic working on the Tail Fuse of a AN-M64 "Carpetbagger" General Purpose 500lb bomb in the Forward bomb bay of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

(Nb the B-29 could carry 32 x 500lb GP Bombs)

 

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress 42-24592 “Dauntless Dotty”
869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force. 24th of November 1944

This plane was the personal aircraft of the 869th Bomb Squadron's commander, Major Robert K. Morgan. For those of you who don't recognize that name, he was also the original pilot of the 91st Bomb Group's famous B-17, "Memphis Belle". After completing his tour in the ETO he took another one in the Pacific Theatre, and completed it as well. He flew this plane in the lead position of the entire 73rd Bomb Wing for the first mission to Japan to be flown from Saipan. The bombardier for that mission was also one of the original crew of the "Memphis Belle", Vince Evans.

"Dauntless Dotty" was also the first B-29 to complete 35 missions in the Pacific.

She was lost on takeoff for a ferry flight on June 6,1945. The crash killed 10 of her crew, but they were able to rescue 3 men.
Crew on last mission:
Capt. William A. Kelley - pilot (KIFA)
1stLt. John F. Neville - copilot (rescued,RTD)
1stLt. William Kovach - navigator (KIFA)
1stLt. Roy E. Shanklin,Jr. - navigator (KIFA)
1stLt. Carl W. Stammerjohn - observer (KIFA)
S/Sgt. Otto D. Pance,Jr. - radio operator (KIFA)
S/Sgt. Albert Desimone - radar observer (KIFA)
T/Sgt. Glenn N. Jones - remote control turret mechanic (KIFA)
S/Sgt. Thurman Walling - armorer (KIFA)
S/Sgt. Charles S. McMurray - electronics mechanic (rescued,RTD)
S/Sgt. Glenn F. Gregory - flight maintenance,gunner (rescued,RTD)
Maj. Louis J. Hartman - passenger (KIFA)
PFC Lowell B. Spivey - passenger (KIFA)

 

[Shandor]

El Boeing B-29 Superfortress, llamado "Enola Gay", fue el bombardero que lanzó la bomba atómica sobre Hiroshima, Japón, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

 

[Shandor]

During and after WWII crash landed and unrecoverable airplanes were cast aside on massive airplane piles and left for another day when there would be time to recycle them. As the war progressed wrecked enemy airfields also fell into Allied hands, with destroyed airplanes of course.

Scrapped B-29s on Tinian [Via]




Junked B-24’s & B-29’s on Guam [Via]

Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay” … in storage at Pyote AFB after World War II [Via]

Boeing B-29, storage yard, El Paso TX, 20May49 [Via]

 

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress 42-24592 “Dauntless Dotty”
869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force. 24th of November 1944

This plane was the personal aircraft of the 869th Bomb Squadron's commander, Major Robert K. Morgan. For those of you who don't recognize that name, he was also the original pilot of the 91st Bomb Group's famous B-17, "Memphis Belle".

 

[MIGUEL]

A B-29 Superfortress crashed during an attempted emergency landing on Iwo Jima Apr 24, 1945 and ran into nine P-51 Mustangs.

 

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B-29

 

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Experimental Douglas XB-19

 

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B-29

B-29's

 

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B-29

B-29 plant

B-29

B-29 v Osaka

B-29 lost its prop in flight which carved hole in fuselage. Pilot made emergency landing and collided with parked aircraft causing further damage to nose and top turret

B-29

B-29

 

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B-29's, Tinian 1945

B-29