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 Post subject: B-29 in the artic
PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:10 am 
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Did I miss this back in June?? I did not hear anything about a B-29 in the Artic.

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/icebridge-discovers-crashed-plane-cold-war.html#.VMVQhlqwNEI.facebook

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 Post subject: Re: B-29 in the artic
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That's what I thought but then Kee Bird is so well documented and this article presents it as something newer. This is of course taking a mighty big assumption that the media got anything about an airplane wreck correct. . . .

edit - I did a little more looking and yes, this article is referring to Kee Bird - it must have been a very slow day at "warhistoryonline.com" and they recycled a good B-29 story.

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 Post subject: Re: B-29 in the artic
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:-? Had me fooled at first tooo. Sure hate that she's sitting up there. Would be neat to have 3 airworthy B-29s...but I'm just being greedy.


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I thought the title of your post was "B-29 in the ATTIC."

Turns out I need more sleep than I thought, but thanks for posting.

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deskpro590 wrote:
Sure hate that she's sitting up there.


If you're talking about Kee Bird, she's NOT sitting up there- at least not in that condition.

bob

p.s. I first scanned "B-29 in the attic" too- wish I had an attic like that!


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deskpro590 wrote:
Would be neat to have 3 airworthy B-29s

"Fertile Myrtle" (the one Kermit Weeks has in storage) would probably be the best candidate in existence for restoration to flight.

Hey. . . if we could get about five million people to each contribute one dollar. . . :supz:

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K5DH wrote:
deskpro590 wrote:
Would be neat to have 3 airworthy B-29s

"Fertile Myrtle" (the one Kermit Weeks has in storage) would probably be the best candidate in existence for restoration to flight.

Hey. . . if we could get about five million people to each contribute one dollar. . . :supz:


Could be 4 couldn't it? FIFI, Doc, Fertile Myrtle", and then the B-29B Kermit was selling through Aerotrader - I understand it is still at Borrego Springs and was for sale at $1.5M - it would take another $10M to get it flying but it is a possibility. Or am I mixing up air frames?

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 Post subject: Re: B-29 in the artic
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wendovertom wrote:
K5DH wrote:
deskpro590 wrote:
Would be neat to have 3 airworthy B-29s

"Fertile Myrtle" (the one Kermit Weeks has in storage) would probably be the best candidate in existence for restoration to flight.

Hey. . . if we could get about five million people to each contribute one dollar. . . :supz:


Could be 4 couldn't it? FIFI, Doc, Fertile Myrtle", and then the B-29B Kermit was selling through Aerotrader - I understand it is still at Borrego Springs and was for sale at $1.5M - it would take another $10M to get it flying but it is a possibility. Or am I mixing up air frames?

Tom P.


Borrego Springs? Ocotillo surely?

Last I saw it was in lots of pieces (along with a few of the China Lake airframes) and not looking remotely airworthy.


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