The world's only vintage B-29 Superfortress still flying touched down early Thursday afternoon at the Lakefront Airport in New Orleans as part of the World War II AirPower Expo set for this ...
While the B-29 is remembered for its role at the end of the Second World War, work on the Superfortress had actually begun three years before the United States was drawn into the conflict. In October ...
The famous WWII-era B-29 Superfortress bomber is the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat, as it was the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aircraft was ...
Production numbers matter because the Boeing B-29 Superfortress was one of the most advanced defense projects ever undertaken. The scale of its development exceeded that of the atomic bombs it was ...
A rare World War II era B-29 Superfortress is scheduled to visit Minden-Tahoe Airport next month. The B-29 Doc History Restored Tour is scheduled to be in Carson Valley on May 24-26. “This tour will ...
The B-29 Superfortress lends much of its early history to the Wendover Army Air Base on the Utah-Nevada border that trained crews to fly the military’s largest plane in the waning days of World War II ...
The iconic B-29 Superfortress "Doc" will land at Springfield-Branson National Airport on Friday, Nov. 1, as part of the B-29 Doc History Restored Tour. B-29 Doc, one of 1,644 B-29 Superfortress ...
If you happened to look up into the skies over Van Nuys Airport at the right time on Thursday afternoon, you may have seen it. Or, maybe you just heard it. Maybe you wondered what that silver, vintage ...
Sunday was the last day to visit the Commemorative Air Force's iconic Boeing B-29 Superfortress at McGhee Tyson Airport. Visitors were able to take a look inside the cockpit of the B-29, Fifi, as well ...
On September 21, 1942, 74 years ago, the maiden flight of the Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" took place. The plane was the successor of Boeing's ultra-tough B-17 "Flying Fortress," and the predecessor to ...
A recent photo captured by NASA’s P-3 Orion shows the remains of Kee Bird, a B-29 Superfortress that crash landed on a Greenland ice sheet in February 1947 during a Cold War spy mission gone awry. The ...
Quiz time! Which secret American military project during World War II proved even more expensive than the $2 billion Manhattan Project which developed U.S. atomic bombs? That would be the $3 billion B ...