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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. [2] [3]
At last year’s Wichita Warbird Weekend, Wells said B-29 Doc had a full house of people. This year, B-29 Doc has added more aircraft to fly in and get up close to. This year, B-29 Doc has added ...
Jul. 13—The B-29 Doc History Restored Tour returns to Terre Haute for a three-day stop, two-day tour. One of only two B-29 Superfortresses still airworthy and flying, "Doc" was slated to arrive ...
Doc is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. It is one of two that are flying in the world, the other B-29 being FIFI. It is owned by Doc's Friends, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Doc attends various air shows and offers rides. [1]
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 ...
Major Robert K. Morgan (31 July 1918 – 15 May 2004), was the assigned airplane commander of Dauntless Dotty.From Asheville, North Carolina, Morgan had been the pilot on the majority of the missions flown by the B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle, which was officially designated the "first" bomber to complete 25 operations in the European Theatre of Operations, while flying out of England ...
B-29-40-MO 44-27354 was built at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Plant at Omaha, Nebraska, accepted by the U.S. Army Air Forces on 20 April 1945, and flown to Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, by its assigned crew A-5 (under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Classen, aircraft commander and group deputy commander) in May 1945.
Major Charles Sweeney, commanding officer of the 393d BS, used the bomber to rehearse procedures using a dummy "Little Boy" test assembly on 26 and 29 July. On the latter mission Next Objective landed on Iwo Jima where the inert bomb was unloaded, then reloaded to practice a contingency in which a spare aircraft would take over the mission.