B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" Cockpit in Flight, Approach, and Landing Loveland Ft Collins, CO 7 24 14 

In-flight problems occurred often. The front end crew were very good at managing them. I flew for the extra money unaware of the danger.

You can literally see the GPS map in the whole video

Plus b-29s had targeting computers for their machine gun turrets just like the black widow night fighter

You guys that flew those air craft in WW2 are. My heros. Absolutely

you can actually see modern panels in there there's navigation or something and the middle panel between the two seats is noticably modern

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Amazed at how roomy it is, yes a eye lens can make it seem that way but looking at the people it seems a true picture. There's 3 people sat with ease in the rear & a nice flume pipe ride if bored. Why did they make access to the bomb bay that way. Fire? Maybe that's where the parachutes are! No cowards allowed. Maybe only the cabin is pressurised? The pilot only has to deal with the 'stick' & 4 dials, I was gonna say speed but amazingly the engineer has every other dial & all the engine throttles but he sits with his back to the pilot. In war the pilot's job is difficult enough with flak all around. The pilot must have a power throttle by his feet?

Didn't realize this either. My first thought "why does that guy appear to have all the engine controls... and he's not even looking where they're going?"!

Bring back the engineer. Be much safer. Well this is a war plane & the pilot would have to concentrate on flying with flak exploding. He has 4 or 5 dials the engineer has nigh on 20 with throttles. These aircraft could fly 20-30,000ft well above flak but bombing accuracy was hopeless so they were ordered to fly much lower over target zone hence engineer doing the monitoring. Pilots fly & engineers engineer! We must'nt forget the cabin was pressurised hence access by a tube, in the main fuselage you had 2 waist gunners, a tail end Charlie gunner & a belly gunner all breathing on oxygen masks. Many when firing would rip them off to get better accuracy. Would like to compare a Lancaster which was definitely not roomy! Like our houses are to American homes.

Such a big workload for the pilot. Engineer needs to be checking and fettling those engines all the time.

Yeah pretty cool what the job was of the flight engineer back then. I would have like to see the takeoff and watching the engineer throttle up the engines just by looking at the gauges.

I didn't notice that until I seen this comment . Yeah I wouldn't want someone else to control the throttle on my car as I steered.

Thanks for watching. It was a GoPro on a head strap.

I loved being an FE on 141-C’s. Your father and I had a great job different aircraft but still the same adventures. I did not have control of the engine throttles like your father. What this gentleman did in the video was put the props in reverse for landing awesome!

If the flight engineer is killed in action, how will the pilots be able to control the engines? interesting line-up of crew jobs.

@@user-jl8hj8qo9p The second/copilot also had throttle control, supercharger and pitch control. However. The flight engineer had full control of all aspects of the engines. Also this was the first aircraft to have a specific check list of operations assigned to each individual. From the pilot all the way down to the gunners. It's really interesting to read the start up procedures and take off/landing sequences. Also the Russian TU4 is basically a carbon copy bolt by bolt reverse engineering of the B29.

@@user-jl8hj8qo9p the pilots and copilots had throttles to the left and right respectively, Just below the windows.

My father was a B29 pilot and, yes, they relied on the flight engineers a lot.

Try driving a 36 foot class A. Wide cab. You can't take your eyes off the road. Judgement of the vehicle on the road position takes a bit of practice.

Now add 25 feet and 25 tons, piece of cake, turn around? , the mirrors job,

@@daleval2182 My motor home only had side mirrors. It didn't have a windshield mirror because it didn't have a back window low enough to look out of.

Think of all the old B-29 crew dogs that saw Star Wars when it first came out.

I never made the connection, but you are absolutely correct. The shape of the nose window frames look just like Han Solos ship!

@@EricPalmerBlog I'm certain they were first in line to see it! What else would they watch!!🤣

Yup! The B-29 cockpit was obviously the idea for the Millennium Falcon’s flight deck…..I have no doubts whatsoever….!!! 😂👍

Same here

Amen!

What does he do the man behind ?

He watches the engines

@@peterhejny363 ok thanks 🙏

@@peterhejny363 Looks like he also operates the engines, he's moving his four throttle sticks, and looks like he didn't have to communicate with the pilot.

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Старый, а такую жуйню несешь

Yep! theaviationist.com/2015/12/15/millennium-falcon-b-29-cockpit/

The B-29 was only used in the Pacific during WWII. Later some B-29s were bought by the RAF so a B-29 technically may have flown over Germany after WWII.

Try to imagine 400 to 500 B-29's flying to Japan..dropping over 2000 tons of bombs every mission. They burned out more square miles of Japan's cities than the entire 8th Air Force and the RAF Bomber Command combined over Germany

@@riproar11 thanks for the correction!

@@clacicle Sure! :) I read up more. The B-29 wasn't needed in Europe because the current bombers were doing a great job annihilating everything by mid-1944. Only one base in England was AAA with thick enough concrete to support the weight of B-29s and other bases wouldn't be ready in time.

One crashed on birchenough hill in wildboarclough about 20 miles from bleaklow I grew up in wildboarclough in the 60s and made many a pilgrimage to where those lads died I still find it very moving . A local farmer found a watch belonging to one of the crew and returned it to the family I believe

@@chriswild2458 yes the dark peak is littered with aircraft wrecks from a WW1 biplane bomber at least three Lancaster bombers , liberators the B29 a thunderbolt skytrain (Dakota) even two Canadian sabre jets that crashed minutes apart

Does that include war, seems like it. Every President hopes to bomb somewhere to show off his metal & command military wise. So far not yet.

Ever thought of the notion that he might have clipped his camera on top of his headset? It looks suspiciously that it always points on the direction his head is turning and doesn’t look like he is handling the camera with his hands. He is as much in the moment as is possie it seems.

Anybody who pays €8200 to see a show needs a good reality check and probably deserve to get ripped off.

I thought and felt the same.

@@ChrisEchoes I thought he was talking about the man in the very front seat holding a camera.

I agree.. I went and got to see the Union Pacific "Big Boy" roar pas\t when it came near my home.. but felt ripped off after because my face was glued to the viewfinder and I missed the LIVED experience. It was cool.. but missed my first time seeing it LIVE..

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Thanks, Devin. You're the first who enjoyed that view. Everyone else was mad because I didn't show the pilots.

Definitely cool to see it go over. I'm about a mile north of where it was rebuilt an the flight line. Saw the first flights. Big rush! That video pretty cool. Bought a credit card size piece of the skin from Doc, stamped with plane image, dates, Boeing Logo & # 44-69972. Been carrying it for a long time,,Doc was still getting shined an waiting for engines then.

B-29 wasn’t used in Europe

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Isso não é um navio , é um avião.

And I’ll bet scary as hell once fighters were on their tail.

Hello Richard, I thought that the tailguns were remotely controlled, not sure though

Thanks for watching. There was plenty of space for us to move around and observe the crew.

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Nice reference, but Maj. Kong was flying a B-52, not a B-29.

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And the leggy lady in the back. She ruined it.

Maybe because of the fisheye lens?

Actually, the bombardier was the most important person on the crew. The pilots merely took him to the target so the bomb toggler gets the best seat.

Yep! theaviationist.com/2015/12/15/millennium-falcon-b-29-cockpit/

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