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RE: The only Bomber type in the World to ever deliver an Atomic Bomb in wartime, is still flying today!
The pilots didn't watch the gauges, the flight Engineer did all the monitoring, 100% of the time. That was what my Father In Law did, and that spot is the guy with his back towards the pilot.
This was the only plane I know of that the pilot relied on others to adjust the throttles for him, he couldn't even reach them.
This plane had the highest horse power piston engines that ever flew, and those monsters had to be babied constantly. That is what he taught Fifi's crew, how to make these engines sing!
They used radar for range and speed to aim the turrets for lead. I do NOT know what else they had in the way of radar; but she was the most advanced piston engine aircraft ever made!
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very good sir smithlabs very good. Extremely interesting. Those designers and engineers must have lived at work to get all that put together!
She was a war machine without parallel! They designed her quickly, and it all worked perfectly! She was a predator without parallel, a war beast that owned the air!
The designers were gifted, and reached for an amazing level of design never reached before! No other aircraft could have carried the massive weight, over the great distances involved; to drop the atomic bomb, where needed!
This plane saved millions of lives with those two drops, and likely saved the Japanese race from extinction!
:Osir smithlabs, sounds like you should write the description for it at the museum!
I agree on the last sentence.
They were trying to apologize for the bomb drop, but veterans got wind of it and RAISED HELL! They changed their minds, and made a decent display for the most famous B29 in the World!
That said, they likely would not have liked my write-up; SMH!
The last sentence was based on information from a book written by a Japanese officer called "Kaiten". He was trained to pilot on of these Kaitens, but survived the war.
>:(sir smithlabs! oh how interesting! and this Japanese officer and what he wrote was so true but what is a Kaiten?
The Kaiten was a torpedo with a driver. The retirement plan was poor....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten
:)Kaiten
Kaiten (回天, literal translation: "Return to Heaven", commonly rendered as "turn of the Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker") were manned torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.