Boeing B-29 Superfortress (Heavy bomber)

[Gunner]

That is an amazing reflection!

How is that even happening!?

 

[HOA_KSOP]

How is that even happening!?

Mirrors, but no smoke

 

[Louis]

A B-29 view from other B-29. Saipan base 1945.

 

[Louis]

Refueling at Saipan.

 

[DoubleD]

Holy crap! Put the hose in the hole man…. That’s a disaster waiting to happen, put the filler in the hole man…. Disciplinary anyone

He just needs a cigarette hanging out of his mouth

 

[Nort]

I’m guessing he’s done that a few times.

 

[DoubleD]

I’m guessing he’s done that a few times.

I don't think that photo will ever stop making me giggle.

I've filled my car up a few times but I still make sure the nozzle is in the hole

ROFL if I started to pump petrol in with the nozzle 6 inches from the filler tank. Like filling a Christmas Gin & Tonic

 

[Gunner]

Avoiding a static spark from the nozzle touching the wing?
The cord doesn't look much like a ground strap.

Of course he could be showing off his fueling skills for the camera also.

 

[Louis]

In flight to Japan, 1944.

 

[Louis]

B-29 scrap yard on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, after the war.

 

[mTk]

Makes me wonder what they did with the scrap.

 

[Louis]

A US Navy man watches as the Superfortress arrive over the island of Tinian.

 

[Gunner]

Looking up Tinian I found that the runway is still there and on the sides the pits where the atomic bombs, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” were loaded onto the B29’s Enola Gay and Bockscar respectively are preserved.