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Offline W7LPNRICK

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B-29 Video
« on: November 01, 2011, 01:32:24 PM »
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2011, 01:35:04 PM »
We Love Fifi!  :aok
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2011, 11:23:08 AM »
Fifi?


got a few pics of her inside and out.  PM if interested
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2011, 05:48:14 PM »
Fifi?
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got a few pics of her inside and out.  PM if interested

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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2011, 11:27:06 AM »
beautiful plane!  :salute

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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2011, 08:22:42 PM »
Here are some crappy photos from my mediocre canon point and shoot kind of camera.  I took these last year at the 2011 JSOH at Andrews Airforce Base in Maryland.






















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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2011, 09:11:17 PM »
WOW! Cool even fake bomba's  :aok
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2011, 12:34:57 AM »
Here are some crappy photos from my mediocre canon point and shoot kind of camera.  I took these last year at the 2011 JSOH at Andrews Airforce Base in Maryland.

excellent pictures! what's that thinig with hydraulic (pump?) for?
thanks for sharing! makes me want to up a B-29, but i always hit the trees on take off!

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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2011, 01:05:01 AM »
The view from the B29 pilot seats' appears very much like that of the Millennium Falcon.

Way cool.   :aok :aok
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2011, 11:54:29 AM »
excellent pictures! what's that thinig with hydraulic (pump?) for?
thanks for sharing! makes me want to up a B-29, but i always hit the trees on take off!

I believe that is part of the mechanism for opening and closing the bomb bay.  Not 100% sure as I took it a while back.
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2011, 11:58:19 AM »
Hey Currey.. did they still have the plastic vomit in the plane?
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2011, 12:04:21 PM »
I'm quite surprised at the state of the corrosion beginning on that airframe. Quite a bit of bubbling/peeling paint, possibly some rust starting, especially the tunnel exterior and the interior dome picture. I would have thought as the ONLY surviving B-29 capable of flying they'd try to keep it in better shape.


P.S. No wheeled cart and cable for pulling yourself along the tunnel?

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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2011, 12:07:50 PM »
Hey Currey.. did they still have the plastic vomit in the plane?

Lol no plastic vomit.

I'm quite surprised at the state of the corrosion beginning on that airframe. Quite a bit of bubbling/peeling paint, possibly some rust starting, especially the tunnel exterior and the interior dome picture. I would have thought as the ONLY surviving B-29 capable of flying they'd try to keep it in better shape.


P.S. No wheeled cart and cable for pulling yourself along the tunnel?

Thank you Krusty I was waiting for someone to say something about that picture.  Inside the bomb bay there were many places with corrosion and paint chipping off becuase of it.  It really doesn't seem like a safe aircraft.  That window picture is really quite gross.
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2011, 12:40:23 PM »
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Re: B-29 Video
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2011, 01:59:55 PM »
I'm quite surprised at the state of the corrosion beginning on that airframe. Quite a bit of bubbling/peeling paint, possibly some rust starting, especially the tunnel exterior and the interior dome picture. I would have thought as the ONLY surviving B-29 capable of flying they'd try to keep it in better shape.


P.S. No wheeled cart and cable for pulling yourself along the tunnel?



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