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Bandit320 · Jun 8, 2022

Blue Sky Country said:
Weren't some surplus B-29s retrofitted with meteorological instruments and used by hurricane trackers to "punch the eyewall" on storms in the 1980s?

They are extremely rugged and durable aircraft. Happy to see that a good number of them have been restored and flown by living history groups just like the giant steam locomotives of the Union Pacific and Norfolk & Western railways...

I don’t know about hurricane mods, but some were modified for environmental monitoring of russkie radioactive fallout. The first one to detect fallout is sleeping on the bottom of a pond at Eielson AFB in Fairbanks, AK.

The Lady of the Lake

B-29 (The Lady Of The Lake) 44-83905

B-29A BN Boeing-Renton B-29A-70BN c/n 11691 44-62214 Lady Of The Lake Submerged in pond on Eielson AFB, Alaska. Name not original to this aircraft and is simply a name the aircraft is referred to as. on 1949 a flight from Yokohama Japan to Alaska, it detected Radioactive fallout from the nearby...

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