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THE B-29 SET JAPAN'S CITIES ON FIRE!![/IMG]
It's called a war...... |
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03-11-2007, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ohka345  THE B-29 SET JAPAN'S CITIES ON FIRE!![/IMG] | It's called a war... 
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| ohka345's homework assignment for tonight.....
"Describe in detail the Imperial Japanese Armies attrocities in the Nanking incident of 1937"
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05-15-2007, 04:08 PM
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| Heres a nice picture of a RAF B29.
This was posted by chris_howlett in the B29 forum.
Notice the wing dihedral (wing bending?).
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Country: | Wow! That is alot of dihedral. Is that normal or is this aircraft under extreme wing loading? I was not aware that structural design at that time allowed for such flexibility on a regular basis.
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06-22-2007, 01:20 AM
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| Check this out!
Its like an online tour of a B29! http://www.rafwatton.info/wash12.pdf
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06-24-2007, 12:08 AM
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| THE B-29 SUPERFORTRESS IN THE CBI THEATER OF WORLD WAR II
This is a nice slide show of B29's and other aircraft in the CBI.
It was done by the son of an aircraft mechanic stationed there.
"in tribute to 1st Sgt. Herschel A. Meredith (794th BS/468th BG/58th BW) and to the men who flew and maintained the B-29 Superfortress during World War II." YouTube - THE B-29 SUPERFORTRESS IN THE CBI THEATER OF WORLD WAR II
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Originally Posted by V-1710 Very interesting about the remote controlled turrets and the computing gunsights. The B-29D was supposed to be powered by the new Pratt and Whitney R-4360 28 cylinder radial. Even though many of the R-3350's problems had been solved during the course of the war, it could never be said that the B-29 possessed a great reserve of power, particularly at take-off with a heavy load and high temperatures. The R-4360 was seen as a possible solution, as was the Allison V-3420. The Allison didn't pan out, but the R-4360 showed much promise. After the war, Boeing proposed an advanced version of the B-29, powered by the R-4360 and equipped for carrying atomic bombs. The Air Force was a bit reluctant going to Congress to ask for funding more B-29 purchases, with many B-29's in storage since the end of WWII. Not to mention, Congress had just elected to fund the jet B-47 project. So, instead of calling this improved version a B-29 derivative, it was decided to call the new version the B-50. It wasn't really out of line, considering that much of the B-50 was a new design. Though B-50's had entered service during the Korean war, none were used in combat. |
Not to mention the little detail that the XB-36 was coming off the drawing board and would fly in August 1946.. | |
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| May I ask You what the range for the B-29 in itīs nuclear bomber configuration (1945) was? Little Boy weighted 9000lbs, fat man even 10.000lbs and I remember that structural reinforcements were made, too.
I found that for the "normal" B-29:
-Maximum range was 4000 miles at 25,000 feet with 5000 pound bomb load.
-Maximum ferry range was 6000 miles (@.
-Practical operational radius was 1800 miles.
-A load of 5000 pounds of bombs could be carried over a 1600-mile radius at high altitude.
-A load of 12,000 pounds of bombs could be carried over a 1600-mile radius at medium altitude.
The maximum allowed fuel load for the nuclear modified B-29 was 8.073 gallons:
1,415 gallons in each inboard wing tank, 1,320 gallons in
each outboard wing tank and 1,333 (1,120 in B-29A) gallons in the centre wing tank and two 640lbs fuel tank in the rear bomb bay (the forward bomb bay was reserved for the nuke).
How much was medium and high altitude respectively?
How much would be the range at altitude for the nuclear B-29?
Thanks in advance,
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B-29 Engineering Flight book, says it all. WWII Army Air Forces Collection
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07-07-2007, 05:11 PM
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| I wish you would have posted it in my "all things B29" thread. 
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