Key Points and Summary on the B-29 Bomber – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a revolutionary WWII-era bomber, most famous for being the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat over ...

We rode on “Fifi,” a real Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, didn’t bomb the Hoover Dam, ... or crawling through the tight passage to the tail gunner's lonesome seat. ...

Summary and Key Points: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, America’s most advanced bomber during WWII, revolutionized aerial warfare with groundbreaking technology like pressurized cabins and analog ...

Topic: B-29 Bomber. Blog Brand: The Reboot. Tags: B-29, ... These tailed weather-recon plane for a while before one opened fire, and the WB-50’s tail gunner shot back.

In 1949, the B-50A Lucky Lady II became the first aircraft to fly around the world in an epic ninety-four-hour flight between February 26 and March 2. (An earlier attempt by B-50 Global Queen, had ...

Sperry was to make complete fire control equipment for all B-29’s, and for sixteen B-32’s. Briggs was given two contracts for turrets: 100 sets for B-29’s and 360 sets for B-32’s. Sperry was given ...

Sam Mastrogiacomo's voice trails off slightly as he recalls the view from his tiny bubble at the back of the B-24H Liberator bomber his crew called BTO — Big Time Operator.

John Quinlan, 81, the tail gunner on the storied World War II bomber the Memphis Belle. Quinlan joined the Army Air Forces in 1941 and was assigned to a B-17 named for the girlfriend of pilot ...