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WW2 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber
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WW2 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber The B-29 Superfortress was pressurized for high altitudes and had remotely-controlled gun turrets. It had four supercharged Wright R-3350-23 engines which gave it the range to carry large bomb loads over the Pacific Ocean. The B-29 Superfortress entered operational service with the AAF in mid-1944 and had an effective range of 3,250 miles. Airfields had to be lengthened because of the long take off required by the B-29 Super fortress.
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Operation MATTERHORN was the name given to the AAF 20th Air Force India-based B-29 Superfortresses job of bombing Japan from forward bases in China. As Island Hopping allied forces made advances in the South Pacific the Twentieth Air Force moved it’s B-29 operations to nearer bases in the Marianas Islands and then from the islands of Saipan, Guam and Tinian. During the brief span of 16 months 28,000 combat sorties against Japan were flown. The B-29 was SAC’s first post WW2 Cold War aircraft 60 Superfortresses had been modified to carry the atomic bomb by the end of 1948. In 1950 B 29 Superfortresses were used for conventional bombing operations in North Korea. It was gradually replaced by the jet engined B-52 Stratofortresses bomber from 1955 onwards. These aircraft photographs are great reference sources if your painting 1/72 scale, 1/48 scale or 1/24 scale plastic model airplane Airfix, Tamiya, zvezda, revel, Pavala aircraft kits or you’re into flying and painting radio RC controlled model planes. There are many aviation books published about the Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber www.MooreAircraft.com Tell your friends about us. Send them an e-mail |