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Offline beau32

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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2011, 05:03:13 PM »
Quote from: fullmetalbullet on February 20, 2011, 04:56:57 PM
no B2 has ever crashed. the amount of computers on that thing pretty much keeps it in the air no matter what.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZCp5h1gK2Q


You dont get out much do you?

Funny thing is moisture in the computer system is what caused it to crash.
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2011, 05:38:46 PM »
Quote from: beau32 on February 20, 2011, 05:03:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZCp5h1gK2Q


You dont get out much do you?

Funny thing is moisture in the computer system is what caused it to crash.

that is why i dont drink at the computer desk, im not saying they were drinking at the controls. i guess i was wrong, that makes 20 B2 bombers now. and i do get out alot.
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2011, 11:48:47 PM »
Quote from: beau32 on February 20, 2011, 05:03:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZCp5h1gK2Q


You dont get out much do you?


It practically happened before he was born.

Cameraman on that clip seriously needs to be reassigned.


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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2011, 11:52:08 PM »
Quote from: AWwrgwy on February 20, 2011, 11:48:47 PM
It practically happened before he was born.

Cameraman on that clip seriously needs to be reassigned.


wrongway

hardly thats was in the 90s from the look of it.
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2011, 11:57:00 PM »
Quote from: fullmetalbullet on February 20, 2011, 11:52:08 PM
hardly thats was in the 90s from the look of it.

At the beginning it says it was in 2008
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2011, 12:04:56 AM »
Quote from: fullmetalbullet on February 19, 2011, 06:20:30 PM
And the most exspensive project. i believe 2 billion dollars were spent on it. how much would that be in todays money?

$2.04bn on the B-29A alone (not the aiming device) but the Manhattan project was much more expensive $20bn.
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2011, 12:33:16 AM »
Quote from: Chalenge on February 21, 2011, 12:04:56 AM
$2.04bn on the B-29A alone (not the aiming device) but the Manhattan project was much more expensive $20bn.

i ment the most expencive aircraft project.
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2011, 08:25:44 AM »
Quote from: Chalenge on February 21, 2011, 12:04:56 AM
$2.04bn on the B-29A alone (not the aiming device) but the Manhattan project was much more expensive $20bn.


This is wrong. The B-29 project was more expensive than the Manhattan project. Off hand I thin is was 3.6 Billing to around 3 Billion
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #23 on: February 21, 2011, 08:26:50 AM »
Quote from: fullmetalbullet on February 21, 2011, 12:33:16 AM
i ment the most expencive aircraft project.

you have to decide first what is worth now a B dollars of those times.

I vote XB-71 Valkyrie  :aok Although I think the current F-35 project beats them all.
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2011, 08:59:08 AM »
Quote from: Noir on February 21, 2011, 08:26:50 AM
I vote XB-71 Valkyrie

Wasn't the Valkyrie the XB-70?

Impressive aircraft, definitely interesting to look at if you are ever near Wright-Patterson AFB.
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2011, 09:21:51 AM »
Quote from: PFactorDave on February 21, 2011, 08:59:08 AM
Wasn't the Valkyrie the XB-70?

Impressive aircraft, definitely interesting to look at if you are ever near Wright-Patterson AFB.

I stand corrected. I doubt I'll ever get there, but I'll keep that in mind  :aok The plane and the technology used are awesome!
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2011, 03:46:12 PM »
Quote from: VonKost on February 21, 2011, 08:25:44 AM

This is wrong. The B-29 project was more expensive than the Manhattan project. Off hand I thin is was 3.6 Billing to around 3 Billion
you guys have to stop changing your mind on how much it costs, I have already converted 2 billion 1945 dollars to Preasent day rubles, there is no turning back now  :old:
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2011, 08:08:40 PM »
Quote from: VonKost on February 21, 2011, 08:25:44 AM

This is wrong. The B-29 project was more expensive than the Manhattan project. Off hand I thin is was 3.6 Billing to around 3 Billion

No... it did in fact cost 20bn and yes Wiki has it wrong. Check Brookings instead of that HACK website:

http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapons/50.aspx
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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #28 on: February 22, 2011, 02:58:27 AM »
"Check Brookings instead of that HACK website"

Wiki's source for expenditure:

Schwartz, Stephen I. (1998), Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press

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Offline RTHolmes

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Re: Very important B-29 question.
« Reply #29 on: February 22, 2011, 07:03:48 AM »
wiki says $1.8bn, Brookings says $21bn.

they are both correct.

I'll let you work out why.
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