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Don't forget the dozens of Bee-Twenny-Nines sitting on some base in Cali-phone-ya...right next to that stack of crated $50 jeeps. :lol:


Oh, wait. There WAS a bunch and there WAS a big pile of scrap that used ta be...

Some of em are even still there!


Wasn't that also Col. Rohr's claim a few years back?

I don't know about Col Rohr, but I am a first hand witness to the existence of at least one. It's sitting out on a range, with a missing tail. I saw it back when I was doing an arch dig nearby. I think our guide said it had been exposed to a nuclear simulation which blew the tail off and over the hill behind it. Still there, as far as I know.

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Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them :shock:

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Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them :shock:


Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.
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Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them :shock:


Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.



Yes they can. I took a look on Google maps earlier today, just search for NAWS China Lake. Towards the SE of the runways is an area with some old aircraft, looks like a couple C-47's and C-130's and most of a B-29 and C-97.

Out on the range appears to be a burnt out B-29, the shape is there, you can make out the tail and nacelles.


I just searched for images on Google and tried to find areas that matched at China Lake.

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Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them :shock:


Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.



Yes they can. I took a look on Google maps earlier today, just search for NAWS China Lake. Towards the SE of the runways is an area with some old aircraft, looks like a couple C-47's and C-130's and most of a B-29 and C-97.

Out on the range appears to be a burnt out B-29, the shape is there, you can make out the tail and nacelles.


I just searched for images on Google and tried to find areas that matched at China Lake.


Thanks, I'll give it a look.
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TAdan wrote:
B-29 Super Fort wrote:
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Reportedly there are 2 complete and 1 partial airframe at China Lake! Highly doubt any one will be able to recover any of them :shock:


Love to see photos of them some day. I wonder if they could be spotted with Google Maps.



Yes they can. I took a look on Google maps earlier today, just search for NAWS China Lake. Towards the SE of the runways is an area with some old aircraft, looks like a couple C-47's and C-130's and most of a B-29 and C-97.

Out on the range appears to be a burnt out B-29, the shape is there, you can make out the tail and nacelles.


I just searched for images on Google and tried to find areas that matched at China Lake.


Is this the same one I saw, I wonder?

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I'm not really sure where this discussion went...I'm confused. :rolleyes:

I don't mind, I just would like to know what we are talking about now.

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I'm not really sure where this discussion went...I'm confused. :rolleyes:

I don't mind, I just would like to know what we are talking about now.


B-29's at China Lake. :D
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