Word: b29
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a layman was struck by an odd item of news about the giant new B29. To avoid certain mysterious "supersonic" effects on the propeller tips, the whirling of its 16-foot-long propellers had to be geared down to one-third of the speed of revolution of the plane's engines...
When a military plane is six miles up, the crewmen are usually hampered by cumbersome clothing, by oxygen masks which fasten to stationary valves. Not so in the B29. It has a cabin which provides air near sea-level pressure at the highest ceiling...
...plants (two in Washington, one in Kansas) entirely to B-29 production, and the plane will also be made at the Martin plant in Nebraska, the Bell plant in Georgia. Douglas and Lockheed will keep on making B-17s. Hap Arnold has said that, with the advent of the B29, the Fortress and Liberator would revert to the status of medium bombers. But there is no intention of discarding them on that account. In the relatively short-ranged European theater, there is a vast amount of work to be done not only by the four-engined "mediums...
...Forces General "Hap" Arnold had said that the new superbomber, the Boeing B29, would make the Flying Fortress shrink to the size of a medium bomber. And that was about all the U.S. public knew about the B29, until last week...
...B29. recently named Superfortress, is a four-engined bomber and the biggest long-range bomb carrier the world has ever seen. By Flight's description it can lug a load of more than eight tons 1,000 mi. (i.e., a 500-mi. radius), can carry three tons 3,000 mi. Its wing span is 141 ft. (Fortress span...