Restored B-29 takes flight

http://mortefontainevillage.pagesperso-orange.fr/marcbrecy/b29.html ^ | 4 marr 2017

[onedoug]

Resurrected.

Thanks for the ping.

[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.

[MosesKnows]

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.

[Sirius Lee]

Isn’t 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:

[snoringbear]

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 😏...

[mdmathis6]

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?

[mdmathis6]

It is a credit to the designers of the era that the bombers are still considered potent after over 60 years of deployment!

[Sirius Lee]

It’s Boeing or I’m not going.

[deport]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hall_(racing_driver)

[Farmer Dean]

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.

[Big Red Badger]

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!

[RoosterRedux]

Wow. That was incredible.

[odawg]

Actually, it was less than forty years. The production design for the B-29 happened in the 30s.

[exit82]

Just never asked him.

[Big Red Badger]

And his Son Jim Hall Jr.

Lucky Sperm Club member!