B-29 Stratofortress - Realism Counts

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

B-29 Designer: VB Planes File: VB_B29.zip Date: March 2001 Rating: 8.4 -more info- Available at VB Planes
B-29 Designer: Oscar Everitt File: b28genie.zip Date: February 2000 Rating: 7.55 -more info- Available at Simviation
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B-29 Designer: Oscar Everitt File: b29univ.zip Date: February 2000 Available at Simviation
B-29 Peek of Perfection Designer: Oscar Everitt File: packb29.zip Date: February 1999 Available at Simviation

Quick Info
The B-29 is generally remembered as the warplane which, on 6 and 9 August 1945, dropped atomic weapons that destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, persuading the Japanese to surrender. Yet by this time the B-29 has been at the forefront of a campaign to neutralise the war-making potential of Japan by burning her cities, destroying her communications network and crippling her industries. First entering service from the Summer of 1944, the Superfortress was an extremely clean bomber with turbocharged engines. The Baseline B-29, of which 2458 were completed, was completmented by the B-29A of which 1119 were manufactured with greater span and a four - rather than two-gun forward dorsal barbette, and the B-29B of which 310 were delivered with reduced defensive armament but a greater bomb load and higher speed.

Variants
XB-29 Boeing model 345 prototype
YB-29   Service test aircraft
B-29 Main production by Boeing Witchita(1620 built), Bell Airplane(357 built) and Martin Omaha(204 built)
B-29A 1119 built Conversions: F-13A (RB-29A) conversions as strategic reconnaissance (117 built) and TB-29A crew trainers (including ETB-29A)
B-29B defensive armament removed excepy tail turret (311 built) Conversions: EB-29B
B-29D ex-XB-44 later produced as B-50 (B-50, B-50A, TB-50A, B-50B, EB-50B, RB-50B, YB-50C, B50D)
XB-29E Conversion to test different electronic fire control
B-29F Arctic conversions of 6 aircraft
CB-29K Conversion to military cargo aircraft
B-29MR (B-29L)   Conversions to receive inflight refueling
KB-29P   Inflight-refueling tanker rebuilds with British method (92 built)
GB-29   Conversions to launch X series rockets
SB-29   Conversion as air/sea rescue platforms

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B-29
Designer: Oscar Everitt
File: b28genie.zip

Overall Rating: 7.55
Model irregularities:
-Body errors
-Square body

Panel: Y
Virtual Cockpit: Y
Sound: N

Moving Parts:
Flaps: Y
Ailerons: Y
Elevators: Y
Propellor/s: Y
Landing Gear: Y
Bomb Doors: N
Wheels: N

B-29
Designer: VB Planes
File: VB_B29.zip

Overall Rating: 8.4
Model irregularities:
-body and gear errors

Panel: Y
Virtual Cockpit: Y
Sound: N

Moving Parts:
Flaps: Y
Ailerons: Y
Elevators: Y
Propellor/s:Y
Landing Gear: Y
Bomb Doors: Y
Wheels: N

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