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Technical Discuss "Early Lessons Learned - B29" in the World War II - Aviation forums; I found on the B29 website, these neat mimeographs from 1944 of some of the early lessons learned for the ...

  1. 03-04-2010 07:17 PM #1
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    "Early Lessons Learned - B29"

    I found on the B29 website, these neat mimeographs from 1944 of some of the early lessons learned for the new B-29 crewman and ground crews.

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  2. 03-04-2010 07:50 PM #2
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    Gret info Sys - too bad that didn't show up a few weeks earlier, but then again had you posted it a few weeks ago, at least one response would have been a Wikipedia "cut and paste."
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    Quote Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ View Post
    Gret info Sys - too bad that didn't show up a few weeks earlier, but then again had you posted it a few weeks ago, at least one response would have been a Wikipedia "cut and paste."


    At least the information was current - for 1944!
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    Quote Originally Posted by syscom3 View Post


    At least the information was current - for 1944!
    That's true!
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    That and very interesting. Thank you for sharing the info Syscom.
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    Thanks. This is quite interesting and realistic to illustrate the people struggling to bring the way-too-advanced aircraft into operational. I haven't seen this type of writing in any other aviation related papers.
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    Interesting reading Sys.


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