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Offline pengu146

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Superfortress not combat version
« on: July 16, 2008, 10:10:53 PM »
How about the superfortress. But the resupply version not the bomber version. They were really important to the war effort in the pacific.
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2008, 10:35:12 PM »
     What version is that exactly?
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2008, 10:36:36 PM »
2nd B29 thread in 3 days  :lol
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2008, 10:41:40 PM »
c-97? made during wwII but didnt fly till post war in '47

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-97_Stratofreighter
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2008, 11:30:39 PM »
Quote from: Captfish on July 16, 2008, 10:41:40 PM
c-97? made during wwII but didnt fly till post war in '47

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-97_Stratofreighter
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2008, 11:40:10 PM »
Everytime I see that plane I cant help but think of the spaceships in the Flash Gordon movie like this one about 1:00 in..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTHypbLlkE.
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2008, 11:48:22 PM »
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2008, 12:24:59 AM »
So THIS fluffy bunny doesn't carry a carrot? What does it carry then?  :rock
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2008, 04:33:42 AM »
      The C-97 had a completely different fuselage than the 29.
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2008, 06:14:59 AM »
HOLY COW!  Wolf14, you are right on the money!!! 

Quote from: Wolf14 on July 16, 2008, 11:40:10 PM
Everytime I see that plane I cant help but think of the spaceships in the Flash Gordon movie like this one about 1:00 in..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTHypbLlkE.
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2008, 12:23:35 PM »
I have a book here that says there were completely unarmed versions of B29s used in WWII to resupply fields in china.
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2008, 05:14:45 PM »
Under closer reading(didnt have reading glasses on) there was a little produced version of the b29 that came before the version thatdropped the NOOOOK!!!
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2008, 05:57:39 PM »
find a credible source on the internet instead just your book
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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2008, 09:15:38 PM »
How about a B-32 Dominator? :D

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Re: Superfortress not combat version
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2008, 12:14:02 AM »
Quote from: pengu146 on July 17, 2008, 12:23:35 PM
I have a book here that says there were completely unarmed versions of B29s used in WWII to resupply fields in china.

Flying 'The Hump', they used whatever aircraft they could to bring in supplies after the Burma Road got cut off.

They used C47s, C46s, B25s, B29s... whatever they could to bring in supplies.

Does this mean AH needs a B29 when a single formation of bombers can drop FHs?

In a word; negative.
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