B29 in a video on CNN

[Versatile]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation ... tml?hpt=C2

Any info appreciated. Which aircraft is this and where is it. Are you in the video? I can't get the video to play. Thanks

[warbird2]

It looks like Doc so I am guessing that picture is from Kansas somewhere.

[The Inspector]

The new video posted on plane-a-day is in theatre, B-29 flight stuff, in color-

[Edward Sheetmetalhands]

It looks like Doc so I am guessing that picture is from Kansas somewhere.

You are right, that is definitely Doc in about the 2002 time frame. It is taken in the Quonset hut known as the Bunny Wash, on B______ property. The main wing has not been joined yet, it is in the left background along the back wall getting new top skins. Off to the right background, is the fuselage section standing up in a jig that caps off the main wing. It needed most of the stringers and tuning forks replaced. The guy on the right has a black Doc t-shirt on.

I don't remember a photo event like this with that replica, but it could have happened. I can just imagine the eyes on the guys in the guard shack when that pulled up! Or it is a photoshop job. Looks real.

Doc was moved several times; first it was in the Experimental Flight Hangar, then the Bunny Wash, then the South Hangar, then back to the Bunny Wash, then to the KAM, and now at another indoor location.

[wendovertom]

yes -there was a photo op as well as a signing of the bomb by 509th CG members. Paul Tibbetts and "Dutch" both signed the bomb along with many other original 509th CG members. It is now on display in Wendover, Utah.

Tom P.