The model looks great I will start building it as you read this.Lucas Hidding Holland Regards, Louis Rizzo Urbanform Designs P/ Thanks again, JohnĬhip and Crew, Thanks again for such a wonderful creation! The way you guys are pumping out these fantastic models I will have to put on a major house extension to display these little beauties. Yes, it was his mother's name, but it makes you wonder. Discovery-Wings channel did an episode on the Tu-4. Wow! Thanks - and thanks for the Russian Tu-4 markings. The B 29 will be an excellent project for any spare time over Christmas! Phil Wilkinson (10/03) Thanks Chip & Crew, for two differing but excellent aircraft in their own right - l love the 'planes from the inter war era. How VERY nice! This is one that was worth the wait! Bravo, Bravo, Bravissimo! (10/03) On the B-29, All I can say is WOW! Caramba, Cowabongas! (10/03) You're NOT hanging those three from the bedroom ceiling!" Oh well, keep up the good work! Dave (10/03)
My wife said, and I quote " You had better finish the model room in the storage shed. Hey chip: You folks at FG just keep trying to out-do yourselves!!! Now we modelers are going to have to build the B-36, b-17 and B-29 all in the same scale. Those committed to preservation pull together! The FIFI pilots are hopefully going to pilot, and train pilots, for DOC. She was coming back in Sept 0f '01, but you-know-what grounded everything but the geese. The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) has now grounded FIFI, who used to tour -last in Wichita about 4 years ago. The B-29 was also the heaviest production plane because of increases in range, bomb load and defensive requirements.īy the end of the World War II, the Boeing Wichita plant had built 1,644 B-29s, nearly 65 percent of the total produced during the war. The tail gunner had a separate pressurized area that could only be left during un pressurized flight. The crew areas were pressurized and connected by a long tube over the bomb bays. The B-29 had many new features, including guns that could be fired by remote control. During the last two months of 1944, B-29s began operating against Japan from the islands of Saipan, Guam and Tinian. In December 1943 it was decided not to use the B-29 in the European Theater, thereby permitting the airplane to be sent to the Pacific area where its great range made it particularly suited for the long over-water flight required to attack the Japanese homeland from bases in China. The first one built made its maiden flight on September 21, 1942. The Boeing B-29 was designed in 1940 as an eventual replacement for the B-17 and B-24. The X-1 Rocket and the "Fat Man" Atom Bomb Models carried by the B-29 are included with the B-29 Download!