Aviation enthusiasts! B-29 "Doc" has her Airworthiness Certificate!

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13. I saw Fifi when it visited the old Austin Muny Airport. A fuselage blister held a GE computer..

part of its then state of the art computerized gun system (the fuselage gun turrets held no gunners, as the MA Deuces were automated.). I talked to a crewman who also flew in WW II and the Korean "Conflict." He said that the new MiG fighters outran the computerized defenses and the early U.S. escorting jets, resulting in heavy bomber losses. Things were to let up a few weeks later when the new Sabre jets took over from the early jets. Poor guy essentially lost his inter-war pharmacy business when he was called to Korean duty (shortage of B-29 crew members).

The next day, while working on a bus in West Austin, I heard a deep rumble and saw it arcing over the capitol bldg, escorted by a Japanese Kate dive bomber. Rather moving and virtually extinct experience.