Explore the story of the "Lady in the Lake," a WB-29 Superfortress submerged at Eielson Air Force Base. Decades of mystery, ...
CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — A very special aircraft will be attending the upcoming 2024 Joint Base Charleston Air Show. B-29 Doc,one of 1,644 B-29 Superfortress aircraft built by the Boeing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The volunteers in Wichita, Kansas, have been hard at work restoring Doc, a B-29 Superfortress, since the project resumed nearly one year ago. “We have made significant progress recently hanging the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
HOUSTON – The B-29 Superfortress, aka Doc, has brought its History Restored Tour to the Lone Star Flight Museum from May 4-9. Tours are available Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. According to a release, ...
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 ...
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 ...