Warbird Information Exchange

it's a B29.

*runs out of forum before everyone starts screaming*

no tail, rumpled a bunch on the port side, and supposedly well picked over by the Fifi crew. Just thought I would update you.

My dig went extremely well, but I can't discuss it. No Aliens or Sasquatch bones in any case

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pffffft just another one of those pesky B-29. If I had a dime for every time I ran across one of those in a field...

No doubt true. However, in their defense, the FIFI recovery crew weren't the only ones who "picked over" parts from the China Lake B-29 inventory.

Gary

hey, I am not complaining. The corpses on China lake need to be cannibalized. Most have been well used as targets and couldn't be made flyable without a huge amount of work. Even up to museum standards would be super expensive, and there are anumber floating around desperately scrounging for parts. China lake has helped that search greatly, even allowing one, if not two, B29's to fly again. Good enough for me

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

No matter what condition I'd save those B-29s...or whats left of them.

No need to go to the trouble to make one flying. It would prolly look cool just as is in a museum or part of a collection.

Any future plans of saving them?

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There are no plans now or ever.

I'll remember that next time I run my hand along that rumpled aluminium skin...

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Echo Range?

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I've seen too many airplanes destroyed by the term "Static Restoration."

think so. The ECM range. This is the bird they experimented on for nuclear blast effects

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."