Thought I would share this one with the crowd not taking anything away from the B-17 but the B-29 was like light years ahead in taking the fight to the enemy.
For its day the ballistic computer that calculated drop & lead to the target was a quantum leap in shooting at fighters, from memory I think the gunners could control any turret think they switched between each other.
Still it gives you an idea of what a great aircraft it was in the day I enjoyed it, though the flight engineer would go dial & lever crazy I think.
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I was fortunate enough to witness that one at an airshow in Reading PA. When I was kid the old man got me some up close of some famous B-29's in Ohio.
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Great to see these old girls flying I remember being at air cadet camp at CFB Trenton in the late 60's when a B24 Liberator flew in from India I believe it was destined for the Canadian Aerospace museum at Rocliffe near Ottawa. As a youngster I was also fortunate to be in Goderich when the Avro Lancaster that now resides with the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum was flown in, at the time my uncle who had been a bombardier on a Lancaster with No 44 Rhodesian squadron during the war was a United Church minister in nearby St Helens Ontario and we were with him to see the old bird fly in. My brother took my uncle before he passed to the Museum in Hamilton and upon hearing he had flown in Lancs one of the staff opened up the bomber for them to board for a tour. My uncle was moved to tears by the memories that obviously flooded back as he moved through the fuselage even though he was unable at his age to climb over the main spar to access his old station. Even though I was born 9 years after the war my heart skips a beat when I hear the distinct purr of the Merlin engine, I salute those that served in those times.
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