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Offline JOACH1M

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Um? B29 guys help!
« on: April 06, 2012, 10:08:34 AM »
I'm in destin Florida and I am almost 100% positive a b29 just flew over the beach. I didn't get a pic intime, but it was polished aluminum with a black circle on the tail with a B in the middle.  :headscratch: is there even a flyin b29? Or am I imagining things.
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2012, 12:14:14 PM »
Fifi is the only flying B-29 I believe. It is polished aluminum, and  it has a 'A' in a big black square on the tail. Fifi was in Florida last week, but it doesn't match your description of a 'B' in a black circle.
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2012, 12:23:49 PM »
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Offline JOACH1M

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« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2012, 03:27:18 PM »
That looks like it! LOL. I thought it was a B! That's pretty cool  :cool: :banana:
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2012, 10:10:35 AM »
Dang, pretty lucky you saw it. Nice!
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Offline Rich52

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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2012, 04:19:04 PM »
A couple years ago I was driving at work, right before the annual air show, and I saw an F-22, a P-51D, and a Spitfire flying together wing to wing around the downtown area for about 5 or 6 turns. I got so excited I babbled it on the radio.

Ive never seen FiFi. You are lucky to have glimpsed her. A good day.
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2012, 06:55:56 PM »
Quote from: JOACH1M on April 06, 2012, 10:08:34 AM
I'm in destin Florida and I am almost 100% positive a b29 just flew over the beach. I didn't get a pic intime, but it was polished aluminum with a black circle on the tail with a B in the middle.  :headscratch: is there even a flyin b29? Or am I imagining things.

If you're positive it was a B-29, it could only be FiFi.
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2012, 12:34:42 PM »
Quote from: Babalonian on April 10, 2012, 06:55:56 PM
If you're positive it was a B-29, it could only be FiFi.
4 engine prop, huge wings, squares wingtips, and black insignia on tail.
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2012, 01:36:02 PM »
I got to check it out a few weeks ago when it was at a warbirds museum down the street from Kennedy Space Center.

It flew over us the next day escorted by a mustang.

Then a B2 did two low passes over the shuttle landing runway we were using with team audi's lemans crew.

The german guys were very pleased.
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2012, 04:29:42 PM »
Sweet!  I work down the street from her home and I have only been able to catch her in the air twice.
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Re: Um? B29 guys help!
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2012, 04:31:23 PM »
I got to watch FiFi takeoff and land about 10 times while I was at Sun N Fun.
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