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Old 23-February-2005, 02:41 PM
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And here I could go on about the B-29 for a few pages. But I won't.

Normally the B-29 carried a crew of 3. The B-29 was *designed* that way, to take over for the B-17, which carried a crew of 10. Reason for having a smaller crew was the fact that the USAF lost a lot of B-17s during WWII, and with them large parts of the crew. So you could decrease possible human losses by 70% if you sent a B-29 instead of a B-17.

I still haven't found a lot of information about the AEW B-29s, why? Because they were only test aircraft, and there were only 3 of them.

Those two "gulf of mexico" incidents are complete bunk.
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