Kenneth Jenkins, 22nd Maintenance Squadron flight chief, have been volunteering their time for a special project: restoring “Doc,” a B-29 Superfortress ... aircraft during World War II ...
The kind of plane known for ending WWII is in Tulsa this weekend. One of only two B-29s that can still fly is at Tulsa ...
Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress was a strategic bomber used to defeat Japan in WWII and was intended for transoceanic missions.
Older residents of what is now Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, still vividly remember the horrific warplane crash there and the dramatic events that ensued in the waning days of World War II. With ...
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.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is one of the most well-known aircraft of WWII. “Without the B-29, the war probably drags on longer,” Wells said. “The B-29 was a technological marvel in the 1940s.
One of the newest aircraft to enter service in the U.S. Air Force is the F-35 Lightning II, which is a fifth-generation ...
World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military ... National Air and Space Museum Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" National Air and Space Museum Martin B-26B-25-MA ...
YAME, Fukuoka Prefecture--Twelve U.S. service members who either died or were executed as prisoners of war after their bomber was shot down near the end of World War II were honored in a memorial ...
FILE – In this Sept. 29, 2004, file photo, the Nine-O-Nine, a Collings Foundation B-17 Flying Fortress, flies over Bristol, Conn. A B-17 vintage World War II-era bomber plane crashed Wednesday ...
One of the last flying B-29 Superfortress aircraft—the same type from Boeing that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan—touched ...
Seeing a historic artifact in a museum is one thing. 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 ...