To: Northern Yankee
I read the story about it. Also watched a video of reclaiming a B29 from Greenland ice.
14 posted on
02/27/2010 5:47:12 PM PST by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
To: SkyDancer
Also watched a video of reclaiming a B29 from Greenland ice.
You only saw the first half, and missed the part where they suspended a 5-gallon can of gasoline ABOVE an operating APU in the rear fuselage. Then did some high-speed taxi runs on the ice.
Result: priceless warbird, extra crispy.
To: SkyDancer
It was in Alaska. Greenland was a stop for aircraft going to the European Theatre. Alaska was a stopover for aircraft going to the Pacific Theatre.
B-29s only fought in the Pacific (with the exception of two B29s that flew through Europe, on their way to India, to scare Hitler.)
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