EVERY YEAR ONE OF THE 2 LAST B-29s GOES TO CHINO AND YOU CAN FLY IN THEM!!!
Hopefully I can do that next year.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
That takeoff at around 1:30 
1 Like
1:18 as well
2 Likes
Surprisingly not powered by P&W 
1 Like
it was some crappy wright engine iirc
Yeah it was Wright
Not crappy though.
They made almost 4,000 B-29s, and just because the engines needed a lot of maintenance didnāt mean they were necessarily bad. Iām not saying they didnāt have their issues.
Though it was 1945 and the technology just wasnāt there for the demand they put the aircraft through. It was a heavy bomber after all.
Maybe it wouldāve been better for P&Ws to be used
1 Like
idk man, if your priority has to be to gain speed instead of altitude to prevent the engine from overheating, Iād say itās say itās a crappy engine
2 Likes
Yet they did have the technology for the advanced systems used for firing. Quite advanced for 1945.
So I donāt know. Maybe they didnāt build an engine tough enough. Couldāve worked for lighter aircraft. Iād have to research more.
1 Like
āDependableā engines
Good slogan back in the day, not so much nowadays
1 Like
How is it not?
Doing better than RR thatās for sure.
And GE just likes to bribe people. There I said it.
1 Like
How so?
huh?
787 go brrrt
777 and A220 with PWs go brrr as well
Who exactly?
1 Like
Truce
777 P&W and 787 RR were both grounded until the issue could be fixed
Idk. Sounds like something they would do though. And it wouldnāt surprise me.
Take a play right out of Airbusā playbook am I right
If you canāt prove it happened, it didnāt happen
Also, last time I checked, none of Airbusā most recent planes (besides the A320neo family) have GE enginesā¦
Yes. Be a good government servant.
So I guess the āPratt & Whitney have no customer baseā lie is a dead argument now.