The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during...
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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a WWII era long range, strategic heavy bomber that was produced in many experimental and production models. Section source:...
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The Boeing B-50 Superfortress is an American strategic bomber. A post–World War II revision of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, it was fitted with more...
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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a United States heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, and...
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The Boeing XB-39 Superfortress was a United States prototype bomber aircraft, a single example of the B-29 Superfortress converted to fly with alternative...
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The Boeing KB-29 was a modified Boeing B-29 Superfortress for air refueling needs by the USAF. Two primary versions were developed and produced: KB-29M...
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is a list of Boeing B-29 Superfortress units consisting of nations, their air forces, and the unit assignments that used the B-29 during World War II...
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Boeing B-54 was an American strategic bomber designed by Boeing for use by the United States Air Force. Derived from the YB-50C Superfortress, construction...
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Aircraft in parallel with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress as a fallback design should the B-29 prove unsuccessful. The B-32 reached units in the Pacific only...
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War II, the factory was used for production of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. A total of 1,119 B-29s were built in the Renton plant. The plant was briefly...
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Operation Matterhorn (section B-29 Superfortress)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers based in India, Ceylon, and China. Targets included industrial facilities in Japan, China and Southeast Asia. The B-29s...
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Enola Gay (redirect from Enola Gay (B-29))
The Enola Gay (/əˈnoʊlə/) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August...
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breakthroughs of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress and other modern types had surpassed the bombers that served from the start of the war. The B-24 was rapidly phased...
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Tupolev Tu-4 (category Boeing B-29 Superfortress)
1940s to mid-1960s. The aircraft was a copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, having been reverse-engineered from seized aircraft that had made...
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Bombing of Tokyo (section B-29 raids)
after the long-range B-29 Superfortress bomber entered service, first deployed from China and thereafter the Mariana Islands. B-29 raids from those islands...
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[citation needed] In its first combat mission, the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress was used by the XX Bomber Command's 58th Air Division to strike targets...
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Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (redirect from Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10–29)
C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress. The Stratocruiser's first flight was on July 8, 1947. Its design...
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Bockscar (redirect from Bockscar (B-29))
2005, p. 184. "Boeing B-29 Superfortress". United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2013. "Bockscar:...
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other American piston bombers of the day, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress and Boeing B-50 Superfortress, were also too limited in range.: 124–126 Intercontinental...
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The 1948 Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash occurred 21 July 1948 when a Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress, modified into an F-13 reconnaissance platform and performing...
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Francisco, California, on 5 August 1950, a United States Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber carrying a Mark 4 nuclear bomb crashed shortly after takeoff...
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Lockheed XB-30 (redirect from Lockheed B-30)
bomber, the same request that led to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Douglas XB-31 and Consolidated B-32 Dominator. Around 1938, General Henry H. "Hap"...
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accept, service and coordinate the transfer of newly produced Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers to other installations. In addition, Ferrying Division, Air...
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Aviation accidents in Japan involving U.S. military and government aircraft post-World War II (section 1951 Sunagawa United Air Force B-29 Superfortress crash)
needs. The 1951 Sunagawa United Air Force B-29 Superfortress crash [ja] occurred on November 18, 1951, when a B-29 bomber from Yokota Air Base crashed during...
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manufactured at the Hanford Site and was dropped from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar piloted by Major Charles Sweeney. The name Fat Man refers...
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Edmund T. Allen (section B-29 Superfortress crash)
technologically advanced airplanes of the war, the B-29 Superfortress. On 21 September 1942, Allen took the first XB-29 on its initial flight and continued as the...
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overseas. With the exception of special programs, like forming Boeing B-29 Superfortress units, training “fillers” for existing units became more important...
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Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy (category Boeing B-29 Superfortress)
208 kn) Service ceiling: 20,000 ft (6,100 m) Related development Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy Aero Spacelines...
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Doc (aircraft) (category Boeing B-29 Superfortress)
Doc is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. It is one of two that are flying in the world, the other B-29 being FIFI. It is owned by Doc's Friends, Inc., a non-profit...
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experiencing problems with reliability when used to power the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. After the war, the engine had matured sufficiently to be used in...
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