22-February-2005, 11:15 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by Johnno
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Originally Posted by outlaw
Boeing also equipped the B-29 with advanced radar equipment and avionics. Depending on the type of mission, a B-29 carried the AN/APQ-13 or AN/APQ-7 Eagle radar system to aid bombing and navigation. These systems were accurate enough to permit blind bombing through cloud layers that completely obscured the target.
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But this wasen't one of those B-29s. This was one of three AEW B-29s that had a AEW radar (AN/APN-20? from memory), why would they have bombing radar on a AEW aircraft? not to mention you couldn't pick up objects at a distance of 20 miles, that were horizontal compared to your position, with a bombing radar. No, I'd guess they didn't even have a bombing radar.
Oh yeah, I checked your link, that's for a normal B-29, not the AEW aircrafts. Maybe you should get your facts straight?
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The observation report is about a B-29 Superfortress during a training flight.
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/gulfc.htm
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