And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A documentary on it mentioned it was a very easy bomber to fly, mild mannered and responsive for such a large plane. It sure was painstakingly engineered and constructed, top shelf in every way.
Fifi, one of two B29's still flying was at the Oceana Air show one year. A man took his grandfather to the show. The grandfather was suffering from Alzheimer's but was a pilot of a B29 during WWII. As they were talking with the crew, they lost track of the old man. Searching, they finally found him in the cockpit pre-flighting the aircraft! They talked him into believing the mission was over and shutting everything down. Later they took him for a flight and allowed him the controls.
A man who on his best day could not recognize his grandson could fly a B29 like he left the cockpit yesterday!
HE 111?
ReplyDeleteCockpit of the Enola Gay B-29
DeleteIt’s either a B-29 or the Millennium Falcon.
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When a Flight Engineer wasn't a luxury, but a necessity to fly the thing.
ReplyDeleteNordon Bombsight right there in the middle. My Grandfather built those at the Burroughs plant in Dearborn.
ReplyDeleteA documentary on it mentioned it was a very easy bomber to fly, mild mannered and responsive for such a large plane. It sure was painstakingly engineered and constructed, top shelf in every way.
ReplyDeleteToo many knobs, switches, and gauges for me. I learned how to fly in a Cessna 140 taildragger.
ReplyDeleteThrottles on the left side?
ReplyDeleteThe four levers with blue tips at left. Flight engineer has duplicate plus more behind right hand pilot seat.
DeleteFifi, one of two B29's still flying was at the Oceana Air show one year. A man took his grandfather to the show. The grandfather was suffering from Alzheimer's but was a pilot of a B29 during WWII. As they were talking with the crew, they lost track of the old man. Searching, they finally found him in the cockpit pre-flighting the aircraft! They talked him into believing the mission was over and shutting everything down. Later they took him for a flight and allowed him the controls.
ReplyDeleteA man who on his best day could not recognize his grandson could fly a B29 like he left the cockpit yesterday!