{"id":52008,"date":"2023-06-13T06:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52008"},"modified":"2023-06-15T19:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:19:43","slug":"a-formidable-aerial-display-of-doc-one-of-the-last-two-b-29-bombers-still-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/13\/a-formidable-aerial-display-of-doc-one-of-the-last-two-b-29-bombers-still-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"A formidable aerial display of 'Doc', one of the last two B-29 bombers still flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous bombers of all time is the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, operated by the US in World War II.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/11\/the-secret-airplane-of-lake-mead-a-b-29-that-sank-in-a-classified-incident-in-1948\/\">The secret airplane of Lake Mead: A B-29 that sank in a classified incident in 1948<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/27\/the-interior-of-the-b-29-bockscar-the-bomber-that-dropped-the-atomic-bomb-on-nagasaki\/\">The interior of the B-29 'Bockscar', the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The B-29 is famous for having been the model that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one of the most terrible episodes of that war. <strong>Between 1943 and 1946, 3,970 heavy bombers of this type were built.<\/strong> The B-29 introduced advances such as a pressurized cabin as well as remotely controlled turrets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52970620491_24aed172ee_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The B-29 \"Doc\" in its hangar (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/B29Doc\/photos\/pb.100064542202695.-2207520000.\/2184228685076897\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">B-29 Doc<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>After the war, <strong>the B-29 served as the launching pad for the Bell X-1<\/strong>, which on October 14, 1947 became the first supersonic aircraft in history, with the historic flight by Chuck Yeager. <strong>The B-29 continued in service until 1960. Today there are only 26 units left<\/strong>, and only two of them can fly: the 44-62070 \"Fifi\" (from 1942) and the 44-69972 \"Doc\" (from 1944). Neither of these two aircraft participated in combat actions during world war II.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52969991382_b03891dcc6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The B-29 \"Doc\" at the 2022 Milwaukee Air and Water Show (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/B29Doc\/photos\/a.295043327328785\/2239692682863830\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">B-29 Doc<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>Last year, <strong>\"Doc\" participated in the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow<\/strong>, in Wisconsin, United States. A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AirshowStuffVideos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AirshowStuffVideos<\/a> published the awesome video of this exhibition (I suggest you upload the volume of the speakers, the roar of the plane is spectacular):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"B-29 Superfortress Flybys + Pyro Bomb View! - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2x-e8Fk0lBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous bombers of all time is the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, operated by the US in World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11546],"tags":[12268,3551],"class_list":["post-52008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-boeing-b-29-superfortress","tag-usaaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}