B29 "DOC" to return to the sky's

**trucker17** · February 9th, 2015, 20:58

Nice story about the restoration of the B29 DOC.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/b29-doc...ide-id-1723997

**roger-wilco-66** · February 9th, 2015, 21:46

Nice story. I like the looks of the "clipped wing" B-29 in the foto above.

Cheers,
Mark

**stansdds** · February 10th, 2015, 02:06

This has been a long time coming.

***ftl818*** · February 10th, 2015, 05:27

She is almost flying now. Look here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/b29doc/

This will be the second airworthy B29 in the world. Hopefully a repaint for the virtavia B29 will be made...

Paul

***stovall*** · February 10th, 2015, 05:46

Thanks Paul for the Flickr link. Sure glad these kind of people are around. The world deserves to see this beautiful bird fly again. Just think of the experience of seeing her take off for the first time.

**IFlySWA** · February 10th, 2015, 06:59

This is great! Thanks for the links everyone.

Brian

**trucker17** · February 10th, 2015, 08:26

It would be awesome to be their when she first takes flight.....
But even more so to see DOC and FIFI flying together....Thats what i really want to see.....

**Ian Warren** · February 10th, 2015, 10:56

HELLS BELLS .. that is impressive series of photo's

**trucker17** · February 13th, 2015, 18:14

Yeah it is Ian.....
Nice to know that their will be a sceond one flying....

***ftl818*** · March 3rd, 2015, 12:19

Updating B29 Big Time Operator with slightly adjusted bump maps, new metallic colors and new alpha channels. Unfortunately the spinners can only be made shiny by modifying the mdl. If enough DOC details are available I will make her repaint.

Paul
Netherlands

**Lewis-A2A** · March 3rd, 2015, 16:59

Fingers crossed she makes it to Oshkosh 2015!

**trucker17** · March 3rd, 2015, 18:46

You bet Lewis....What a site that will be......DOC and FIFI together......

**roger-wilco-66** · March 24th, 2015, 06:09

Rollout!

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds...d-wichita.html

**trucker17** · March 24th, 2015, 08:28

Yep....Looks like they are on schedule......

**Dutcheeseblend** · March 24th, 2015, 08:36

Beautiful!

I'd love to bumpmap this baby in FSX! You see all the bumps on the fuselage? Beautiful!

**Bomber_12th** · March 24th, 2015, 09:30

Still some sections that need polishing, but she already looks gorgeous out in the daylight - especially nice to see everything finally "buttoned-up" (the cowl panels all fitted and the windscreen cap back on). The skins of the main section of the wings and the center section of the fuselage, which was manufactured as one unit, are painted silver, just as that section of the aircraft was finished back in original production and can be seen that way in all of the original factory fresh photos (the trailing and leading edges and everything else was left bare metal). The aircraft did originally have turrets fitted when it was manufactured, and the group does have turrets for it, but it was mentioned a while back that they wouldn't start thinking about doing all the work to fit them until after the aircraft has been flying for a while (the turrets being a very low priority), and to do the work at some point while the aircraft is down for annual inspection/winter maintenance. In its current form, it resembles one of the "Silveplate" B-29's - it's going to be quite a mover, with less drag/weight and the more powerful engines that are fitted (though, like FIFI, which also runs the same engines, power will be kept at lower settings to use only what's needed).

Now really looking forward to the first videos of the engine runs and taxi tests, at which point we'll know it will be just about ready to fly.