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Nothing Could Stop the B-29 Superfortress Bomber
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a revolutionary WWII-era bomber, most famous for being the only aircraft to ever drop ...
A Fighter Built for the ImpossibleThe Blohm & Voss BV 155 was born out of desperation, as Allied bombers soared to higher ...
The aircraft was built in 1944 and named the B-29 Doc. On Thursday morning over 200 people got to see the aircraft take off and land at the Georgetown County Airport.
The B-29 Superfortress known as "Doc," is in Tulsa after a forty-minute flight from Wichita, led by pilot Steve Zimmerman. "I started this because I love the airplanes. And now it's more about the ...
At 0900 on July 1, operation test Able commenced, and an atomic bomb, named Gilda, was dropped from the B-29 Superfortress. Gilda was detonated at 520 feet of altitude, with a yield of 22-23 ...