Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress was a strategic bomber used to defeat Japan in WWII and was intended for transoceanic missions.

The B-29 Superfortress was an important US heavy bomber introduced in 1944 that played ... the B-29D with upgraded engines, and various modified versions for aerial tanker, aerial reconnaissance ...

Seeing it, touching it, and in the case of B-29 Doc — a World War II-era bomber — flying in it, though, is an altogether different experience, says Sean Elliott, pilot of the craft.

Harry George in front of his B-29 bomber. Harry George ... The plane was down to two engines. Iwo Jima was three hours away. "When we finally got to Iwo, it was all socked in.

Back in the day, Kevin Lockwood enjoyed tinkering with Chevy Camaros but soon realized he wanted to combine his interest in ...

In the 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department, we see how the B-29 bomber came into being and watch it on aerial bombing missions in Japan during WW2.

“The B-29 was a technological marvel in the 1940s. It was the first all-electric aircraft. it was the first high-altitude, long-range bomber pressurized. It had all the bells and whistle ...

The crew’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress was part of a U.S. air raid on Omuta, a nearby city with munition factories, early on July 27, 1945. The bomber, whose serial number was 42-94098 ...

It was powered by a rocket engine with four chambers, each of which could be turned on and off individually. To save fuel, the plane was drop launched from a B-29 bomber. Yeager named his X-1 ...