The Boeing B-29 was a four-engine heavy bomber operational during World War II. Designed as a high-altitude strategic bomber, it became known for carrying out the devastating atomic-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
After the war, the advanced B-29s carried out several tasks including in-flight refueling, antisubmarine patrol, weather reconnaissance, and rescue duty.
Here are the plane's replica bombs:
The B-29 saw military service again in Korea from 1950 to 1953, battling new adversaries: jet fighters and electronic weapons.
The last B-29 was retired from active service in September 1960.
Here's the cockpit of the B-29 Superfortress:
The Superfortress featured a pressurized cabin, tricycle dual-wheeled landing gear, and a quite-advanced-for-the-time electronic system that controlled four machine-gun turrets that complemented a manned, semiautomatic rear-gun turret.
"Fifi" is the nickname of a surviving B-29 out of about 4,000 produced by Boeing, the only one still flying. The aircraft is owned by the Commemorative Air Force, based at Addison, Texas, which rescued it in the early 1970s.
Here's one of the plane's control panels:
The aircraft has taken part in airshows, documentaries, demo flights, and movies.
In the video below, filmed by our reader and friend Erik Johnston, you can join the aircraft commander Allen Benzing in a guided tour outside and inside Fifi.
Here's where passengers sit:
Here is the full video:
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