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Word: b29 (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controls of a B29, General LeMay flew the 4,640 miles from Hawaii to Washington for a new nonstop record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fire in the Night | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

With 27 helpers, Rowen got busy. Shunning everything that looked like school, he set up workable, toy-like models of the main parts of a B29, beginning with a propeller that could be operated from an exact replica of B-29 controls, and ending with a mockup of a whole plane in which student reactions could be tested when things went wrong. Charts and graphs of fuel and electrical systems were also converted into full-scale mockups, covered with Plexiglas or painted in bright colors so that students could see what happened when they worked the controls. Result: fascinated trainees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: It's Fun | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Major General Curtis E. ("Ironpants") LeMay has lately become known as "The Cigar." He usually has one clenched in his teeth (it helps to cover a slight facial paralysis, the result of an old wound), and the boys of his 21st Bomber (B29) Command, in sincerest flattery, have also become cigar puffers. Last week their stogies stuck up at a cocky angle. Their morale and their operational results were soaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Cigars & Bombs | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: B-29's Big Sister | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...Superfortress. ¶Its companion piece, the B32, which may be ready for combat "in the next few months." The A.A.F.'s excuse for two models with approximately the same performance: Consolidated (B32) will keep Boeing (B29) on its toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Beyond Anything Imagined | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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