VIDEO: Doc performs high speed flight and arrives at Wichita’s Eisenhower National Airport

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[PeteePie]

I know we're all wired into the 'best election ever' but here's a little slice of cool news and views regarding the B-29, Doc. Video at link.

[Daaave]

Now for something the same but different. The B-1B. YouTube

[EveningStar]

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

My uncle Lloyd flew out of England with the 8th AF.
Dad was a civlian Hump pilot in the C-B-I Campaign.
He called China-Burma-India the “bump on the butt” of the Allied war effort.

[USNBandit]

I’m sorry, but nothing sounds like a Merlin.

[Rebelbase]

I got an inside tour of FiFi at an airshow back in the early 90’s.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping....HomeCountry ...for me....my Dad worked on B-17’s in WWII at the Boeing plant!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

As an old ME who built the Renwal “Visible Radial” around 1962, I know what you are saying about that sound! Still sends shivers down my spine and arms.

Loved the “Little Friend” escort / chase plane — what a great touch!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the ping. Just wonderful! You have to wonder about our lost abilities as a nation to develop such machines on such short notice ever again.

[SunTzuWu]

Beautiful! Thanks for the ping.

[DuncanWaring]

When I was about four years old, we lived abeam the runway at Carswell AFB, base housing, in a house that backed-up to the actual airfield area, when they had B-36s stationed there.

When they took-off, the ground shook.

[OldMissileer]

My uncle, my Dad’s older brother, flew B-25s in the Pacific with the 5th Air Force while my Dad was in the 8th AF.

My uncle was shot down over China and spent almost six months getting his crew to General Chang’s lines. They made it and went on to get back into the war.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Dad was in a crash landing in India. His C-46 was returning from a trip to Kunming. He had burns on his back and neck. Uncle Lloyd made 30 missions over the Channel. Not a scratch.

[OldMissileer]

Uncle Lloyd made 30 missions over the Channel. Not a scratch.

The only time my Dad had a really close call was when he was on the ground at his base. They had an air raid and he dove into a slit trench. The anti aircraft fire destroyed a JU-88 and one of the heads, with flight helmet, of the German crew landed about three feet from my Dad.

In China, the locals hid my uncle and his crew as they were taken to General Chang's lines. My uncle told me that at least three villages were burned to the ground by the Japs because they found evidence they had been hiding my uncle.

Because of that my uncle always loved the Chinese people.

[cpdiii]

When I was a young boy in El Paso, Texas I often saw those 6 enginened, 4 jet monsters landing at Biggs Field. It was impressive. Later I saw B47s and lastly the greatest beast of all, the B52. The BUFF is still flying and ready to render great grief on enemies a continent away.

The B52 has 8 jet turbines. A 52 had a turbine out and requested priority landing. The next thing heard on the radio from a fighter jock was, “Ah, the dreaded 7 engine approach.”