[DCBryan1]

Great! Maybe now DOC and FIFI can be loaded with B61 nukes and drop them on Raqqah.

[Zathras]

I’ve seen FIFI flying in Colorado.
Very impressive!

[Chode]

with Tehran as a secondary

[ExNewsExSpook]

It was great when the Commemorative Air Force (formerly the Confederate Air Force) used to stage their World War II shows capped by a FiFi fly-by; at the designated moment, the ground crew would detonate a pyrotechnic device that produced a mushroom-shaped cloud. Alas, even the CAF caved to political correctness and scrapped the simulated nuke.

The B-29 was a tremendous technological achievement. Went through a lot of teething pains and when XX and XXI Bomber Commands stood up, they achieved little in the way of operational success. Making matters more difficult, both organizations reported directed to the joint chiefs in Washington, through Army Air Forces Commander Hap Arnold. Never known for his patience, Arnold wound up firing the first leaders of both commands. It wasn’t until Curtis LeMay arrived in theater (and switched to night, low-level fire-bombing) that the B-29s began to cripple Japanese war production.