Title
Boeing B-29 Super-Flying Fortress heavy bomber
Caption
Four-engine Boeing B-29 Super-Flying Fortress strategic bomber in flight, 1944 or
1945.
The B-29 made its maiden flight on September 21, 1942.
The first mass-produced bomber with a pressurized cabin for high-altitude flights, 3,970 planes were built by an industrial consortium made up of Boeing, Bell and Glenn L. Martin, in the framework of the most gigantic and most complex aeronautics program of World War II.
Date
1944
Credit line
Photo12/Collection Bernard Crochet
Reference
CRO01169_048
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
78,6Mb (3,8Mb) / 20,5in x 14,9in / 6142 x 4475 (300dpi)