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Archae

(46,328 posts) Mon Jul 24, 2017, 01:15 PM Jul 2017

I sure wish I could go to the EAA convention this year...

Experimental Aircraft Association get-together in Oshkosh, WI.

But both "Fifi" and "Doc" will be there!

Not one, but *TWO* flying B-29's! (big sigh)

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*607/20246259_1866502910281493_444322884854337458_n.jpg

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Two-rare-World-War-II-planes-to-fly-together-at-EAA-Airventure-436320253.html

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I sure wish I could go to the EAA convention this year... (Original Post) Archae Jul 2017 OP

Here's Doc...sure is a shiny bird! Ryano42 Jul 2017 #1

How the Soviets stole the B29 flotsam Jul 2017 #2

Ryano42

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1. Here's Doc...sure is a shiny bird!

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Mon Jul 24, 2017, 01:35 PM

Jul 2017

flotsam

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2. How the Soviets stole the B29

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Mon Jul 24, 2017, 03:42 PM

Jul 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

"Stalin told Tupolev to clone the Superfortress in as short a time as possible instead of continuing with his own comparable ANT-64.[8] The reverse-engineering effort involved 900 factories and research institutes, who finished the design work during the first year; 105,000 drawings were made.[9] By the end of the second year, the Soviet industry was to produce 20 copies of the aircraft, ready for State acceptance trials"

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