Nearly two years before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into the Second World War, the US Army Air Corps asked American aircraft manufacturers to design a bomber that could fly 3 ...

On August 6, 1945, a seismic event occurred that would forever change the course of history and warfare. At the controls of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, was Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Two of the nation’s most iconic warbirds still flying today, just touched down in Bay County. The B-29 ...

The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the ...

When it comes to the military aircraft that have shaped world history, there may be no single airplane model with a greater impact than the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 didn't just push the ...

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...

In the late 1940s, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress crashed into Lake Mead during a classified postwar operation ...

AIRING SUNDAY MORNING AT 11:00 ON KMBC NINE. WELL, THIS WEEKEND YOU CAN CHECK OUT SOME HISTORIC PLAINS AT NEW CENTURY AIR CENTER. THERE’S ONE PLANE, THOUGH, IN PARTICULAR WITH AN AWFUL LOT OF HISTORY.

"This book provides a chronology of the B-29 from the first feasibility studies and earliest designs in 1934 to the retirement in 1960. The timeline covers the conceptual, developmental, and ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (HawaiiNewsNow) - Koko Kondo was just 8 months old when an American B-29 aircraft named the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown of Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945 ...