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 ...IBRARY
^ Minicolour No 45: One of three airworthy examples of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. This example is flown by the Confederate
Air Force and is based at Rebel Field, Texas.
John Batchelor
Minicolour No 46: A Savoia-Marchetti SM 79 Sparviero (Hawk) in Leban...
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 ...November iph, 1947 FLIGHT 549
AMERIC
Douglas Skystreak—the world's fastest aircraft.
Diverse Military Applications : Two, Four, Six and Eight-Jet Bombers
VALUABLE though it undoubtedly is, the world's...
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 ...4 FLIGHT
HERE
AND
THERE
Seventieth Washington
A BOEING B-29 Superfortress (R.A.F.name Washington), which landed at
Marham, Norfolk, on July 4th fromWestover Field, Massachusetts, was the
seventieth to be delivered to Great Britainunder the U.S. Gov...
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 ...-range aircraft used by Chkalov and Gromov
for their Moscow-America flight-in 1937. The Tu-2 is the best of the Soviet
twin-engined attack bombers and the Tu-70 very-long-range bomber is based
on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Tupolev is a Hero of Socialist Labour,
Stalin Prize Winner, Professor, and Lieutenant General of the Air Force.
A. A. Mikulin, designer of the widely used liquid-cooled AM a...
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 ...FLIGHT, 9 January 1953
FOX PETER TWO
An Historic Flight-refuelling Operation
TN October of last year 75 F-84 Thunderjets flew out from
•*• Travis Air Force Base, California en route for Japan.
Fo...
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 ...•$<•> FLIGHT Jur.Y I2TH, T04
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were based on a harbour in Ceylon ; but lately they have
moved up to Akyab and other liberated harbours. One
of their most spectacular feats was to alight on an inland
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 ...le for
aircraft navigation was made by Dr Charles Draper of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In collaboration
with North American Aviation engineers, he flew an
inertial system aboard a Boeing B-29 Superfortress in 1953.
The aircraft flew non-stop from Boston to Los Angeles,
demonstrating the feasibility of INS, but at 2,6001b and
20ft3 the system was too bulky. Nowadays a modern ...
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 ...FLIGHT
SUPEKFORT
The Qenealogy of a Notable Long-range
Heavy Bomber
By JOHN W R TAYLOR
THE atom-bomb and its implications have formed atopic of world conversation for several months. Butonly brief men...
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 ...r, Boeing engineers first constructed a scaled-down
model which was installed on a Douglas A-20 at Wright
Field. Trials proved that the gear operated satisfactorily
even if one tyre blew out.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress has been referred to often
as the most tested aircraft ever built. This is due to the
fact that construction of the experimental B-29S was
started before detailed designs ...
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 ... headquarters to their new airport,
which became known as Bebel Field. The previous owner
of the field had been the USAF. One of the hangars
they left behind was made available to the CAF, and in
Boeing B-29 Superfortress N4249
North American P-5ID Mustang N10601
this their bombers fitted very nicely. To accommodate the
fighters a new hangar was constructed, and alongside this
a smaller ma...
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 ...wick and Jackson, 1
Tavistock Chambers, Bloomsbury
Way, London WC1A 2SG; ISBN 0 283
98786 3—£10-95). Story of "this
awesome weapon" from inception to
the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
"The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was
the greatest airplane of World War
II".
Flyers by Douglas Brown (Hamlyn,
Astronaut House, Hounslow, Feltham,
Middx; ISBN 0 600 30494—£2-95).
Latest volume in the pu...
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 ...NOVEMBER gTH, 1944 FLIGHT
Simple Flying-bo
Small Qround Crews Suffice P^Sg^
A METHOD for the rapid and safe beach ing of the largest types of flying boats without employment of large crews has
bee...
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 ... and strength in excep-
tional measure.
DREAMBOAT TO CAIRO
TN recording, on pages 398-9, the great flight of the
-*- Truculent Turtle, we looked forward to comparing this
achievement with that of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Pacusan Dreamboat. The Dreamboat's flight, from Hono-
lulu, via the North Pole, to Cairo, totalled about 9,500
miles, and was completed on Sunday, October 6th, in
39 hours 36...
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 ... Air MinistryCommand Training Conference, and
afterwards took a radio familiarizationcourse at the Empire Radio School,
COUNTERPARTS : By the time these comparative views of the Avro Lincoln (top)and Boeing B-29 Superfortress have been printed, residents and holidaymakergjw1
Southern England should have seen nine B-295 on one of their two godnlwilfflfghtsover the British Isles...
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 ...FLIGHT, 23 March 1950 369
HERE
and
THERE
Bleriot Lecture . ;
SIR FREDERICK HANDLEY PAGEis to deliver the third Louis BleriotLecture, in Paris, on May 4th. His sub-
ject will be: "Towards safer and slo...
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a Closed Circuit, which hitherto has been only a World Class
Record. This means that the American record of Lt.Col.
Lassiter and Capt. W. J. Valentine, of 14,249.656 km
(8,850 miles), set up in a Boeing B-29 Superfortress on
August ist-3rd, 1947, now becomes a World Record.
The five World Records are now:—
(1) Distance in a Straight Line without Landing.
(2) Distance in Closed Circuit.
(3...
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 ...as well as from
the challenge of new production pro
grammes. Thus former Tornado pro-
Pilot Skip Creiger and flight engineer Jack Kern pose at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, last weekend
before flying a Boeing B-29 Superfortress to join the Imperial War Museum collection at Duxford,
Combs. The aircraft has been flown from the Military Aircraft Store and Disposal Centre at Davis-
Monthan AFB, Tucson,...
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 ...TU-95MS BEAR
During the Cold War the Bear became part of
folklore (right); a pair of Tornados provide an
escort for a Tu-95 Bear (middle); the cockpit
is surprisingly cramped (bottom)
F or years ...
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 ...ll-air range is
1,790 miles. If the tanks are jettisoned before combat the
radius of action is 605 miles at 10,000ft.
ATOM-BOMB CARRIERS
IT has been officially announced in America that as well asthe Boeing B-29 Superfortress all large bombers on order
for, or projected for, the U.S. Army Air Forces will be capable,with slight modification, of carrying an atomic bomb.
No details are available of t...
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 ...572 JUNE 19TH, 1947
B 29s OVER BRITAIN
Two of the nine Superfortresses over Plymouth at mid-day on June nth.
Superfortresses of 340th Squadron, U.S.A.A.F., Range Far and Wide
MARHAM airfield, in Norfo...
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