Way to go, CAF!
I swear that I got to look around in a flying B-29 at an airshow back in about 1989, but I wasn't that old then and don't have a good memory of it. I wonder if it was Fifi?
Here's a great write-up of CAF taking possession of Fifi back in the '70s and then flying away with it cowboy-style from China Lake:
http://www.warmkessel.com/jr/flying/td/jd/56a.jsp"We had read the part of the flight manual that mentioned magnesium fires in the engines and the likelihood of only having about a minute before the wing burned off. Lacking both an intercom system between the front and rear compartments and a fire warning system I thought prudence dictated devising some sort of procedure to cover this eventuality. After taking another look at the date of repack on everyone's parachutes we divided the leftover nuts and bolts into two coffee cans. I gave one to "Mac" and one to "Lefty" after conducting accuracy tests on who could throw the can farthest and straightest through the bomb bay crawlway tunnel, the only connection between the front and rear of a B-29.
"The objective was that if the back half of the crew saw something really B-A-A-D while performing their duties as engine scanners (necessitating testing the manufacturer's return policy on the freshly packed parachutes) they would throw their can of bolts through the tunnel as hard as possible and then LEAVE! The same procedure would be used by the front end crew. The only difference being that if the back end crew hesitated overly long in leaving after receipt of the can of bolts from the front end, they would abruptly find themselves promoted to in-command status, we would have already left!"
