highlights of our photos are included below. Some chose to keep a low profile and others spoke. We've had the privilege of seeing, and photographing, 16 of these during the last two years. On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Only 22 complete B-29 airframes are currently restored in the United States.
Original Photographs of Restored B-29 Superfortress Bombers
The last B-29 in squadron use retired from service in September 1960. The B-29 is most known by many for two missions that occurred in August 1945, over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that lead to the end of World War II. Designed as a high-altitude daytime bomber, the B-29 flew more low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing missions. In wartime, the B-29 was capable of flight up to 31,850 feet at speeds of 350 mph. built 536 in at its plant in Omaha, Nebraska. built 668 Superfortresses in Georgia, and the Glenn L. Boeing built 2,766 B-29s at plants in Wichita, Kansas and Renton, Washington. The most common cause of maintenance headaches and catastrophic failures was the engine.Ī total of 3,970 B-29s were built. Initial models were plagued with problems, and faced a constant series of modifications. The first B-29 prototype made its maiden flight from Boeing Field in Seattle on September 21, 1942.
