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i'm sorry to here that were you a ww 2 veteran? :cry: Sorry I didn't see this until now, Max. Yes, I enlisted in 1942, and actually was in for several wars, for I retired medically in 1965. I was a navigator/bombardier in WWII in B29's. After that war and before the Korean one I became a pilot, and...

There is more to Shockwave's planes than exterior physical appearance.

Shockwave planes fly and perform "By the book" and have detailed, functioning. 3D cockpits. .

JJB17463rdBombGroup wrote:I fully understand Major.I'm glad that you didn't have to go on any one way missions either.BTW my father built an awesome bomb shelter during the cuban missile crises.

He was right to do so. It could have been needed.

If the shelter is still in existance , save me a bunk!

Major if you want any of them just let me know because I could easily download them and burn them to a DVD or multiple CD's and mail them to you. I greatly appreciate your offer, JJB, but I was one of the ten bombardiers selected to participate in the Crossroads Project. To avoid confusion about wh...

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Glad to read you again AC Joe. Great day and surprise for me grant Papy. I'm sure you made efforts to keep with us, and hope this is for long now.

Thanks for welcoming me back, Inouvo. I have missed you folks!

Those are great references about the whole B29 line! Thanks! I found this passage particularly interesting, because I was on one of the crews who were slated to fly the "one way combat" missions if the cold War heated up during 1946-'48. "The B-29 was SAC’s first Cold War aircr...

I flew in '29's until December of '52, and had a few hours in th B50.

I never heard of the '29D 'til now.

Very interesting! How many did they build? Did they ever fly the "D" operationally or was it used only by Boeing as a test bed and demo?l

Snuffy_Hadden wrote:Welcome back Major! :salute:

Good to see ya.

Thanks, Snuffy! Good to be back! I was "under the weather" for quite awhile.

Looking at this photo of the nose wheel of « FIFI », it definitely looks to be steerable [img]http://wisup.net/File_6/WIS_FR/2006/Images3/060930/Pé12SJIdI0D30092006200211443360.jpg[/img] http://www.b29superfortress.com/gallery/show.php?start=0&id=19 Therefore I wonder why taxiing of my...

JJB17463rdBombGroup wrote:I have high hopes for FSX too. I saw a screenshot from space in FSX so it would make an excellent spacecraft flight simulator as well. <snip>

Also...FSX's flour bombing game is a TINY step in the right direction...

Precision bombing is the greatest dart game ever !

Hey Major I'm glad that you are here at the Shockwave site.It has been quite a while since we have seen you here. It's great hearing from you.You are the Norden expert and thanks again for the replica bombardier wings. Glad you like the wings. Actually, the information applies to any synchronous si...

It looks very promising.The detail should be improved though. It should look exactly picture perfect inside a B-17 bomber. It is said that whoever can turn FSX into a combat flight simulator will have enormous bragging rights,gain unlimited amounts of cash,fame and would become THE flight sim GOD.I...

Wow you already have the B-17 in it cool.I really liked the water too 46th_terror. I noticed the flour target mission in the demo.Even if FSX couldn't be hacked into a combat flight simulator maybe Shockwave could add a sophisticated and properly modeled norden bombsight and make bombing target mis...

AC, I am just responding to your statement as follows: "The early model 51's were a different breed entirely... They were dive bombers, had dive brakes on the wings and were powered by the Allison engine. They were designated the A-36 and called "Invaders" . Their mission was VERY cl...

The early model 51's were a different breed entirely... They were dive bombers, had dive brakes on the wings and were powered by the Allison engine. They were designated the A-36 and later called "Invaders" . Their mission was VERY close ground support. AC Let's not get our airplanes mixe...