This article comes from The BBC. ” The Boeing B-29 was the most advanced bomber of World War Two, and more expensive to design and build than the atomic bombs it dropped. It also helped influence the airliners we fly on today.
It was two years before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour dragged the United States into the war. But the US Army Air Corps was looking for a new bomber aircraft. What they were after was a “superbomber”, capable of flying up to 2,000 miles (3,200km) at a time and at altitudes never achieved before.
The aircraft they got would go on to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ultimately bring an end to World War Two. It would also pave the way for a civil aviation boom that led to the everyday air travel we have today.
This is the story of how an aircraft that cost more than the entire Manhattan project – the B-29 Superfortress – changed the world.” Click here to read the rest of this article.