Boeing B-29 "Fifi" Cockpit Checklist Run-through, Engine Start and Take-off!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- This is a clip of the footage that I took during my TWO recent flights on the Commemorative Air Force's Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Fifi." One flight went out of Burbank, CA and the other was out of Bakersfield, CA. Absolutely fantastic and what a sense of history! Turn up the sound L-O-U-D on this one. You will get an inkling of what it was like in that cockpit (the flight engineer's window was removed for this flight). Awesome! Thanks for looking!
That engine tone is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! There is a B29 crashed (RB29 'Overexposed' crashed 1948) on the hills near where I live, the crash site gives a real sense of the size of this massive bomber!
What truly amazes me about the technology of the B-29, design of aircraft carriers and battleships, is that it was all done before computers. Slide rules for computations. Think of the miles of wiring inside a plane like that. Even had remote control guns in the turrets.
just picture the power those 4 leavers control :D
I checked out the CAF AirPower History Tour website and I reckon it would be worth every cent to get a seat. That's on my bucket list though I am pretty sure you would have a long wait. I had to wait six months to get a P51D flight over here. There is a Constellation over here and I am pretty sure the B29 uses the same R 3350 engines.
Pricey ride, haha. I was just happy to get to see the inside of the plane:-)
Watching them work in concert to takeoff and land this beast just blows my mind. Modern aviation is certainly marvelous but its operators are many leagues below the brave and talented souls who tamed this beast for so many years.
Takeoff looks so cool with all that window up front!
I am privileged, I was able to tour the entire aircraft for $ 25 dollars. Best $ 25 dollars I ever spent …👍🏻
Pretty sure that's a digital screen of some type at 2:25... Not standard equipment on the 1945 B-29! Not that I begrudge them adding some new tech for safety sake.
I am so glad to see people that keep our past like this planes going they were difficult to understand and fly but it was worth it
Thanks for the great taste. Wish I could afford, I did ride in a B-17 a few years ago.
aluminum overcast? i rode in that one
Believe so. I rode as "radio operator," LMAO, appropriate as I was first licensed as a radio amateur about 65. I still have a few pieces of the old WWII aircraft gear, and am somewhat familiar with some of it.
I would just fu$&@/ love to fly that big Beast for just 5min.
Eargasmic sound! And gorgeous plane!
Imagine seeing a few hundred of those take off on a mission
c'est du super merci beaucoup jo de noumea
No Scary Emergency Switch
haha, off the ground over the numbers.
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Does the pilot have control of the throttles etc
This question come up often on B29 videos. As it happens my father was a B29 pilot and I learned a bit from him.
Pilot, copilot, and the flight engineer each had their own set of throttles. Procedure could vary by crew but often the pilots used the throttles only for taxi, take-off, and landing. The flight engineer controlled the throttles at nearly all other times. The pilot also had control for the superchargers and propeller pitch. Just about everything else was up to the flight engineer.
Looks out of trim. He's holding a lot of left aileron.
Anticipation in to the roll is amazing, if some one knows why...?
Strange that the throttle is a seat away behind the pilots and controlled by a flight engineer. If he was killed in combat wouldn't that complicate landing?
My thoughts exactly 😮
Still AWSOME BIRD!!!$ MY FATHER WORKED FOR BOEING, ON THIS DESIGN AND STILL.IT IS SCARY AIRPLANE TO SEE IT FLY AND WHAT IT DID IN WW2. THANKS FOR KEEPING IT GOING. PEOPLE.WHO FLEW THESE BIRDS GAVE THEM.PROUD,.LOVE, AND STILL FLEW THEM.BACK TO.BASES
The Buzz Saw of FREEDOM baby!
It's so lovely to see! I believe my late grandfather flew one of these
My grandfather when he was in his 80s used to say he could probably still get a B-29 running. Cool to watch the flight engineer here doing what grandpa used to
the original millennium falcon!!
mark baker: you raised a very intelligent question concerning engine throttles: Years ago I purchased some copies of pilots flight manuals for several WWII aircraft, among them the B-29, dated April 10-1944. Paragraph 3 Controls- (a) location of controls- “”..the throttle levers are triplicated, one set each being available for the pilot, copilot and engineer. The pilot, however, may at any time override the engineer’s throttle controls to maintain sole command.”..paragraph 2 (e)..“ Automatic Engine Control-should engine control cables be severed, the throttles will automatically assume the “fully open” position, and the supercharger waste gates will stay as set. Should the lever arrangement between the waste gate motor and waste gates be severed, the supercharger waste gates will assume the “full open” position. “. ..the term automatically “fully open” would be for maximum power in case of combat damage. If I understand Waste Gate correctly, it is a means of controlling the waste exhaust gases that is directed to a high velocity turbine wheel to keep a higher pressure of incoming air volume to the cylinders especially at high altitude where air is thinner.
Just wow!!!
Try using headphones
What i'd give to fly in one of those.
Jeremy H. It's AWESOME when they light er off....unbelievable...Charlie Tilghman, then S.W. Air's check ride pilot, let me keep my seat on the bombardier's tractor looking seat in the nose, as we landed in Valdosta, Ga.
Quite a day that was. I've had the honor of filming several flights on her, and sister squadron LB 24, Diamond Lil.
Bob Robbins was Boeing's B-29 test pilot, my friend, flew her all around, from Seattle to Renton to be painted after Bob called Boeing's Chairman and asked about Boeing getting behind FIFI. Bob always got the job done.
Florida's Commemorative A. F. wing was started by Bob, after I requested the squadron pkg. from the Dixie Wing in Atl.
So many memories, as Bob would say.
God Bless all that knew service. Salute!
NO NUCLEAR PAYLOAD THIS TIME
They forgot 1 thing in the check-list : BEERS !
More seriously ,is there a specific order in starting engines ?
yes, they start the inboard motors first.
ha!! there arent too many of these old girls flying, so gotta keep the pilot's sober!!
Not so long ago an Australian Royal Air Force veteran who had flown in England and Europe during ww2 got to fly a restored Spitfire and his first comment on getting into the plane was "It still smells exactly then same but I miss the smell of beer !" so that definitely went on - a bit of the old 'Dutch Courage' probably helped things along back then...
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