The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is one of the most iconic aircraft in aviation history. While it is often remembered for dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and for launching experimental ...

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Eighty-three years ago today, on September 21, 1942, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress took to the skies for the very first time. This four-engine heavy bomber represented a major leap forward in ...

The famous WWII-era B-29 Superfortress bomber is the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat, as it was the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aircraft was ...

ALBANY COUNTY – The Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF) iconic Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, FIFI, landed at Albany International Airport on the afternoon of Monday, June 13, accompanied by the C-45 ...

Sky watchers in the York and Adams county area were treated to a special view on Monday afternoon, with a rare glimpse of one of only two operational B-29 Superfortress bombers while it transited the ...

It's no secret that military machines like bombers cost a lot of money, but every so often, something truly pricey rolls off the assembly lines. During World War II, defense industries across the ...

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AIRING SUNDAY MORNING AT 11:00 ON KMBC NINE. WELL, THIS WEEKEND YOU CAN CHECK OUT SOME HISTORIC PLAINS AT NEW CENTURY AIR CENTER. THERE’S ONE PLANE, THOUGH, IN PARTICULAR WITH AN AWFUL LOT OF HISTORY.

When it comes to the military aircraft that have shaped world history, there may be no single airplane model with a greater impact than the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 didn't just push the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of two black and white photographs taken by Eunice L. Brownson Brownley on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, circa late ...

"Star Wars" is pretty much World War II in space. Not just because of the overarching plot involving an evil empire and dogfights between airplanes/spacecraft, but because so much of the first movie — ...