eBay: Boeing B-29 Superfortress
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Donivanp
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This was done in the field. As I understand it for Germany it would have been a depot level repair, or a wright off..
But Hey I've been known to be wrong..
But Hey I've been known to be wrong..
SaparotRob
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You wrong? UNPOSSIBLE!
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bdefen
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Would that wing repair have been done using pop-rivets? Screws?
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Good question.
bdefen
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My only reference in inquiring: A skilled-sheetmetal-fabbing-friend was building himself an aluminum framed/skinned airplane. Low-wing - maybe sort of like a Beech Bonanza, sans the V-Tail. After a year or so, he got the wings and tail assembly done, started on the main fuselage, and he gave up for some reason (divorce, loss of interest, money, fear?) and sold the pieces to somebody. The riveting process was very laborious - the rivet holes had to be drilled, and lined up perfectly before the pop-rivets could be installed. (No spudding or reaming allowed). He had purchased dozens and dozens of Cleco fasteners to hold it all in place while riveting.
cammerjeff
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I doubt they would be all pop rivets, a skilled sheet metal worker can get a bucking bar into very tight spaces to compact the tails of the rivets, we had quite a few special bucking bars to get into tight spaces. The first skin of a repair like that would be all solid rivets, the second skin could have some pulled rivets in the tight spaces, but would only be a few.
But I was not there doing that repair with what materials they had at hand at the time, so my opinion is not meant to be the final authority on that repair. Just my 20 years of experinace doing simalure repairs. Cheers.
But I was not there doing that repair with what materials they had at hand at the time, so my opinion is not meant to be the final authority on that repair. Just my 20 years of experinace doing simalure repairs. Cheers.
SaparotRob
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So bubble gum and bailing wire is a myth?
cammerjeff
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I may have witnessed some short flush rivets and a little structural adhesive securing them in place, but the names of those involved will remain anonymous! 
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Bell Atlanta B-29B-65-BA 44-84121 Stratovision
Stratovision tests were undertaken between June 1948 to February 1949. The first phase was undertaken by the Glenn L. Martin Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corporation using a twin-engine PV-2 aircraft flying at 25,000 feet (7,600 m) that transmitted with 250 watts on 107.5 MHz and 5 kW on 514 MHz at Baltimore, Maryland so that recordings could be made at various locations ranging from Norfolk, Virginia to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts.
The second phase of testing was undertaken by these companies using a stripped-down B-29 Superfortress flying at 30,000 feet (10,000 m). The plane was equipped to receive a relay transmission from WMAR-TV, the Westinghouse television studios in Baltimore, which was then relayed over a 5 kW video transmitter and a 1 kW audio transmitter for reception on 82-88 MHz with a television set tuned to Channel 6.
The aircraft received its originating signals from circular dipoles attached to a streamlined eight-foot mast on top of the aircraft's vertical tail fin. The retractable 28 feet (8.5 meters) long broadcasting antenna hung vertically beneath the aircraft. It was composed of a two-element turnstile array for video and a single-element circular dipole for sound transmissions.
The receivers, transmitters and necessary air-conditioning were all powered by the plane's engines using three 15 kVA, 500 Hz alternators. Without air conditioning the transmitters in the interior of the aircraft would have generated a temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 degrees Celsius) with an outside air temperature of 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 4 degrees Celsius).
The tests were watched by many television viewers who sent in reception reports. From these reports it was calculated that Stratovision would require only eight relay planes to provide a transcontinental network and six additional planes to provide coverage to 78 percent of the United States. Mr. C.E. Nobles who was the head of Stratovision for Westinghouse said in his report:
" The major technical problems of the system have been solved, and the commercial development awaits only the crystallization of public demand for the expanded services offered by airborne broadcasting, application of the system by the radio industry to meet this demand, and the clarification of channel facilities available to make possible this application." Warbird Information Exchange • View topic - Stratovision B-29
Stratovision tests were undertaken between June 1948 to February 1949. The first phase was undertaken by the Glenn L. Martin Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corporation using a twin-engine PV-2 aircraft flying at 25,000 feet (7,600 m) that transmitted with 250 watts on 107.5 MHz and 5 kW on 514 MHz at Baltimore, Maryland so that recordings could be made at various locations ranging from Norfolk, Virginia to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts.
The second phase of testing was undertaken by these companies using a stripped-down B-29 Superfortress flying at 30,000 feet (10,000 m). The plane was equipped to receive a relay transmission from WMAR-TV, the Westinghouse television studios in Baltimore, which was then relayed over a 5 kW video transmitter and a 1 kW audio transmitter for reception on 82-88 MHz with a television set tuned to Channel 6.
The aircraft received its originating signals from circular dipoles attached to a streamlined eight-foot mast on top of the aircraft's vertical tail fin. The retractable 28 feet (8.5 meters) long broadcasting antenna hung vertically beneath the aircraft. It was composed of a two-element turnstile array for video and a single-element circular dipole for sound transmissions.
The receivers, transmitters and necessary air-conditioning were all powered by the plane's engines using three 15 kVA, 500 Hz alternators. Without air conditioning the transmitters in the interior of the aircraft would have generated a temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 degrees Celsius) with an outside air temperature of 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 4 degrees Celsius).
The tests were watched by many television viewers who sent in reception reports. From these reports it was calculated that Stratovision would require only eight relay planes to provide a transcontinental network and six additional planes to provide coverage to 78 percent of the United States. Mr. C.E. Nobles who was the head of Stratovision for Westinghouse said in his report:
" The major technical problems of the system have been solved, and the commercial development awaits only the crystallization of public demand for the expanded services offered by airborne broadcasting, application of the system by the radio industry to meet this demand, and the clarification of channel facilities available to make possible this application." Warbird Information Exchange • View topic - Stratovision B-29
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SaparotRob
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Never heard of this. Cool.
cammerjeff
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New one to me also
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Soooo....This is how we get nationwide broadcast--all those old B-29s flying over us.
SaparotRob
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It's how we should get nationwide broadcasts.
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"Your football coverage is interrupted temporarily by another B-29 engine fire"
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1946 USAAF airman Lt Zahn's Boeing B-29 Airplane Fluffy-Fuzz IV , GUAM
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Nr 905 1945 USAAF Lt Zahn's, Pratt AAF, KS FUEL TRUCK night camo
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