B29

I know it's past time since it obviously flew, but any of the links posted don't seem to work showing the flight. I'd like to see it, even though it already happened. Any new links?
 
The first one works, but the half-hour's worth of footage to watch runs from 1:28 through 1:58.
 
Just search YouTube for anything like "B29 Doc's first flight" and you will find a bunch of videos. There are also some videos of the B29 FiFi at Oshkosh last year including one taken from the cockpit when it was inbound for Oshkosh.
 
Barry-ct said:
I know it's past time since it obviously flew, I'd like to see it.
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Takeoff...

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Landing rollout.....

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For those that may be interested,,,A book,,,"Hunting Warbirds" by Carl Hoffman, covers the Kee Bird and other recoverys.
 
They did not retract the gear as it was the first flight. They had trouble latching the bombbay doors so they had to taxi back and fix them. Flight was suppose to be thirty minutes , but due to taxi time they did not want to run engines more than planned so cut it short to one go around. FiFi crew flew it. The Doc friends did an incredible job taking years to restore this aircraft.
 
scrapiron said:
For those that may be interested,,,A book,,,"Hunting Warbirds" by Carl Hoffman, covers the Kee Bird and other recoverys.
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Unfortunately, Greenamyer's half-assed approach to airmanship, as well as his "get-home-itis" and poor planning, destroyed forever that almost-pristine jewel by the name of Kee Bird. We should also not forget that his "lead guy" lost his life for this ill-planned debacle. DD
 
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Angledrive said:
They did not retract the gear as it was the first flight. They had trouble latching the bombbay doors so they had to taxi back and fix them. Flight was suppose to be thirty minutes , but due to taxi time they did not want to run engines more than planned so cut it short to one go around. FiFi crew flew it. The Doc friends did an incredible job taking years to restore this aircraft.
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I knew about the trouble with the bombay doors, but I sure do appreciate all the added details. DD
 
I have two noobie questions....
First, I thought all such restorations had a tail number with a prefix X ?

Second, I thought protocol on engine starting sequence was to rotate port~starboard, rather than both on one wing then the other wing?
 
V8COOPMAN said:
Unfortunately, Greenamyer's half-assed approach to airmanship, as well as his "get-home-itis" and poor planning, destroyed forever that almost-pristine jewel by the name of Kee Bird. We should also not forget that his "lead guy" lost his life for this ill-planned debacle. DD
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Note to self: turn off APU after generators come online.

Lonnie
 
Congratulations to the team that restored Doc... it's been a LONG haul since it was towed out of China Lake. Now we have two of them in the air!
 
After they fixed the bomb bay doors, it took off again and that flight including taxi time was a half-hour's duration (1:28 to 1:58 on the long video). The landing gear remained down for that flight as well.
 
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