"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/08/2015 at 19:03 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/08/2015 at 19:03 • Filed to: planelopnik | 3
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Scrapped Boeing B-29 Superfortresses on the island of
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during WWII. Almost 4,000 B-29s were built during the war.
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remains flying today, with a
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set to fly soon.
desertdog5051
> ttyymmnn
11/08/2015 at 20:27 |
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That brings saddness to my heart. The things we did to our arsenal after the war.
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ttyymmnn
> desertdog5051
11/08/2015 at 20:38 |
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They made an awful lot of beer cans. And new planes. Back then, of course, it was all just so much scrap. The Air Force had no reason to think that the planes would become so valuable or nostalgic.
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desertdog5051
> ttyymmnn
11/08/2015 at 20:47 |
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True. Hindsight is 20/20. Just so sad to thing my Budweiser might have been a B-17 years ago.
f86sabre
> ttyymmnn
11/09/2015 at 08:01 |
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I wonder if the ones scrapped on Tinian were unserviceable. The B-29 was still a modern bomber when the war ended.
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ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
11/09/2015 at 09:09 |
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I would guess that, at that point in the war, it was easier to simply break up and shove aside a damaged aircraft rather than try to fix it. I imagine they still used them for parts. They did pull the engines.
