Cross post: Recent B-29 Kee Bird Pix

[menards]

Watch the documentary, and decide for yourself. It had a fire in the aft fuselage bad enough to melt the fuselage in 2. It's not flying out, there's no road in or out. It's done.

How many million would you be willing to fund or fundraise to retrieve a few hundred thousand in engines and props? It's extremely sad what happened. It was a risky endeavour and they almost pulled it off.

Mark

so what exactly burned? The fire seemed limited to the rear crew compartment, the FWD crew compartment, and the tunnel.... with the tail, and center section and wings surviving. was it the interior insulation?

Again, the documentary doesn't tell you if your interested in knowing. The fire was limited to the rear crew compartment inbetween the bulkheads, the tunnel, and the fwd crew compartment. So when the fuel can came loose in the rear compartment and ignited by the APU, what burned through to the FWD crew compartment? Insulation? rags? paper?

[CoastieJohn]

Watch the documentary, and decide for yourself. It had a fire in the aft fuselage bad enough to melt the fuselage in 2. It's not flying out, there's no road in or out. It's done.

How many million would you be willing to fund or fundraise to retrieve a few hundred thousand in engines and props? It's extremely sad what happened. It was a risky endeavour and they almost pulled it off.

Mark

If you get a chance, check out the documentaries on how they transported people and parts to build the DYE stations 100-something miles out on the ice cap. There was no road so they made one. If someone had the permits and pockets, it could be recovered.

Check out the below vid. Go to the 11:50 mark and watch the aircraft getting towed across the icecap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-i0lzZIrRE

One other thought that comes to mind from a previous thread about this B-29 a while back. An open question, who owns the parts that were installed on the aircraft in the attempted recovery?

[WIXerGreg]

It's been a while since I was up on this but wasn't Greenamyer on the hook for most of it? I seem to remember him having to sell much of his aircraft collection afterward. Repaying investors?

[CoastieJohn]

It looks like that week in March 1947 was a bad time frame for B-29's. From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle....March 1st, 1947.

[Scooby]

Any chance you could post a few??

I'll dig them out and post them.