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FIFI is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. It is one of two B-29s in the world flying as of 2024 (with Doc being the other). It is owned by the Commemorative Air Force and is based at the Victor N. Agather Hangar at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, Texas. FIFI tours the United States and Canada annually. It takes part in various air shows and ...
In 1973, the B-29 was recovered by the now defunct Florence Air & Missile Museum in Florence, South Carolina for restoration. In 1994, the Marietta B-29 Association sponsored restoration and put it on display at Dobbins ARB, Georgia as "Sweet Eloise." 44-84053 Warner Robins, Georgia: Museum of Aviation: Static display
Restoration on the aircraft was begun in 1983 and the museum building was completed in 1984. [4] [5] A Sud Aviation Caravelle VI-R was donated to the museum by Airborne Express in 1985. [6] In 1991, an extension was opened to the public. [7] Lane died in 1995. [8] A glider that was on its way to be donated to the museum was destroyed in a fatal ...
The first B-29 combat losses occurred during this raid, with one B-29 destroyed on the ground by Japanese fighters after an emergency landing in China, [46] one lost to anti-aircraft fire over Yawata, and another, the Stockett's Rocket (after Capt. Marvin M. Stockett, Aircraft Commander) B-29-1-BW 42-6261, [e] disappeared after takeoff from ...
After sitting at bombing range at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake for 42 years, Doc was recovered in 1998 by a team led by Tony Mazzolini. [1] The group Doc's Friends was started in 2013 to support the effort and, following 3 years of work, the airplane flew again in 2016.
Doc participated in its first airshow since the restoration, the Defenders of Liberty Airshow, on May 6 and 7, 2017, at Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana. [19] [20] Two months later, it participated in EAA AirVenture Oshkosh with the only other flying B-29, FIFI. [21]
The plant, originally occupied by Bell Aircraft, began operation in April 1943 and was intended specifically to produce B-29 Superfortresses under license from Boeing. During the course of the War, the factory produced 668 B-29s for the United States Army Air Forces , and at its peak had a work force of approximately 28,000.
The Silverplate project was initiated in June 1943 when Norman Ramsey Jr. from the Los Alamos Laboratory's E-7 Group identified the Boeing B-29 Superfortress as the only airplane in the United States inventory capable of carrying either type of the proposed weapons shapes: the tubular shape of the Thin Man, or the oval shape of the Fat Man.