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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber was the first bomber with pressurized crew compartments. The B-29 is the only aircraft to have dropped an atomic weapon in wartime.  In August 1945 of WWII the Enola Gay and Bockscar were used to drop those atomic weapons. The above B-29 is on display at the Travis Air Museum part of the Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum Foundation.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 at 12:01 am. It is filed under Transportation and tagged with aviation, Aviation Museum, B-29, Boeing, Boeing B-29, Bomber, CA, California, Canon, EF 24-105mm f/4L, HDR, James Fike, James Fike Photography, Museum, Superfortress, Travis Air Force Base, USA, WWII. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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2 Responses to “Boeing B-29 Superfortress”

1. Luis says:

   December 16, 2010 at 6:40 pm

   Dude, love these colors, tones, and sharpness. Reading Catch-22 now; it’s what I think when I see this.
2. Atomic Bomb Footage says:

   December 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm

   [...] Part 1 of this raw, silent footage from Tinian during World War II shows the loading of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb aboard the B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay,” and early morning activity on Tinian on 6 August, 1945, prior to takeoff. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command, Photographic Section, UV-1. For more on this topic you can read: http://www.jamesfike.com/2010/12/15/boeing-b-29-superfortress/ [...]