The B-29 Superfortress was not designed to be nice. It was a pressurized, four-engine behemoth built for one specific purpose: to carry 20,000 pounds of explosive steel to the Japanese mainland. It ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A World War Two veteran was drafted at just 18-years-old and the Air Corps bombardier was one of the youngest officers on his crew. Richard Martin said years and years went by ...

In 1944, a rookie B-29 crew member named Manny Greer faced a life-or-death test on his very first flight. When two engines failed over Texas, the plane crash-landed in a field, killing two crew ...

Of the 3,900 B-29 bombers built between 1943 and 1946, only two are still flying, and both are kept in the air by not-for-profit organizations. FiFi, owned and operated by The Commemorative Air Force ...

Most of the older performance aircraft still in use by the military - including the F-15, F-16, U-2 spy plane, B-52 and B-1 bomber, are off-limits to the general public. A ride in one usually is ...

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...