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Very clever, these old planes. To help with routine maintenance, they display the odometer on the tail, to let the mechanics know when it’s time for the engines and various other aircraft parts to be serviced! And now, let us spare a thought for the poor painter who has to cling to the outside of the bomber, repainting it with every mile flown.
While visiting a very good friend in Wichita, Kansas, we paid a return visit to see ‘Doc’, the restored B-29 Superfortress that is both owned and maintained by the non-profit organisation Doc’s Friends. One fact that blew me away while refreshing my knowledge of Doc was that she was one of 1620 B-29s built in Wichita by Boeing, and that at peak production the factories in Kansas were pumping out 4.2 B-29s per day! There’s the power of the assembly line for you. Let us spare another thought for the crew that had to fly 20% of a B-29 bomber. ;-p
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While visiting a very good friend in Wichita, Kansas, we paid a return visit to see ‘Doc’, the restored B-29 Superfortress that is both owned and maintained by the non-profit organisation Doc’s Friends. One fact that blew me away while refreshing my knowledge of Doc was that she was one of 1620 B-29s built in Wichita by Boeing, and that at peak production the factories in Kansas were pumping out 4.2 B-29s per day! There’s the power of the assembly line for you. Let us spare another thought for the crew that had to fly 20% of a B-29 bomber. ;-p
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Like the Kaiser shipyards pumping out a Liberty ship(though honestly to call them 'ships' is scary since they had a tendency to sink on their if they weren't torpeidoed or deck gunned) a day for the war effort.
That aside it was and still is an amazing feet and one of the reasons we were able to help win WW2.
Also Glad you could make it to the US. Hope you enjoyed your stay and got to see lots of neat places with good friends. :D
That aside it was and still is an amazing feet and one of the reasons we were able to help win WW2.
Also Glad you could make it to the US. Hope you enjoyed your stay and got to see lots of neat places with good friends. :D
About 15 years ago, I met a B-17 Flight Engineer and Top Turret Gunner in the local mall and we had a lovely chat. The told me he had served on four different planes and ridden one down that should have crashed -- there was so little left of it. The other three were destroyed; one cut in half by the wing of a Messerschmidt fighter. He got really good at parachute jumping...
Goodness, what a life! I'm reminded of the story of "Ye Olde Pub", the B-17 that was approached by a Bf-109, but the pilot Franz Stigler saw that the bomber was so shot up and incapable of defending itself, that he escorted it over the Atlantic Wall and to the English Channel. It's a really wholesome story if you haven't heard of it before. :)
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