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Restored B-29 takes flight
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| 4 marr 2017
Posted on 03/04/2017 5:25:43 PM PST by rey
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To: stylecouncilor
Resurrected.
Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:17:26 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: snoringbear
Warfield truckstop...
Blue Max bar..
Midland International...
Enjoyed my time in Texas.
I worked at Jim Halls race Shop for 3 yrs.
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:17:51 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: rey
restored B29 As a boy, I explored all over the inside of B-29s. From the pilots seat to crawling through the tube over the bomb bay to get to the rear gunner position.
To this day, I can identify the sound of a B-29 on the very rare occasion I get to hear a B-29 in the air. The last time was several years ago at a Manassas, VA air show.
As a boy, we told that there were two words all Japanese knew, Babe Ruth and B-29.
I rarely hear of the B-50, which was a post WW2 version of the B-29.
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:19:13 AM PST
by
MosesKnows
(Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
To: Farmer Dean
Isnt it amazing that we went from the Wright Flyer to that aircraft in 40 years? Harder still to believe that in 65 years we've gone from this:
To this:
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:26:21 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
To: Big Red Badger
Warfield truckstop... Blue Max bar.. Midland International... Enjoyed my time in Texas. I worked at Jim Halls race Shop for 3 yrs." Man, you pushed a lot of memory buttons. I guess I ate enough Warfield chicken fried steaks and burgers to fill a B-29 bombay, lol! I knew a guy through his wife (she worked for me) who worked for the Hall race team for a while. He left and went to work for a NASCAR race team based there in Midland. Can't recall the name of the driver or team though. Too many years have passed 😏...
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:31:43 AM PST
by
snoringbear
(E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
To: exit82
Was it that no one ever asked him or was it that he gave one of those looks that told you never to ask him again?
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:33:03 AM PST
by
mdmathis6
(BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
To: Sirius Lee
It is a credit to the designers of the era that the bombers are still considered potent after over 60 years of deployment!
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:36:12 AM PST
by
mdmathis6
(BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
To: mdmathis6
It’s Boeing or I’m not going.
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posted on
03/05/2017 6:40:40 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
To: Big Red Badger
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posted on
03/05/2017 7:02:11 AM PST
by
deport
To: Sirius Lee
Just because something’s old doesn’t mean it can’t get the job done.Many Freepers will leave the house today carrying a sidearm that’s 106 years old.
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posted on
03/05/2017 7:13:12 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
("Do you want me to shoot,I'm rested.")
To: snoringbear
I remember the L7 at Warfield...
Chicken Fried steak
Mashed potatoes and green beans.
THE BEST EVER!
Driver was John Andretti..
Jim Hall Former driver owned
Rattle Snake Raceway located 20 miles South East of Midland .
Good Times!
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posted on
03/05/2017 8:43:06 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: rey
Wow. That was incredible.
To: Big Red Badger
Actually, it was less than forty years. The production design for the B-29 happened in the 30s.
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posted on
03/05/2017 10:12:25 AM PST
by
odawg
To: mdmathis6
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posted on
03/05/2017 10:13:51 AM PST
by
exit82
(The opposition has already been Trumped!)
To: deport
And his Son Jim Hall Jr.
Lucky Sperm Club member!
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posted on
03/05/2017 3:58:07 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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