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Saturday, February 6, 2021

Airplanes of the Day - Bell X1 & B-29

Bell X1 & B-29

Friggin' Air Force. Cold War thinking run amok.  I would think that raising the six ton X1 from a pit would be a heck of a lot easier than raising the 50 ton B-29. Shoot, you could probably just tilt the B-29 back on it's main gear enough to slide the X1 underneath. But I wasn't there, and who knows? The guy who built the lifts may have been Senator Pork's brother-in-law, and that may have tipped the political balance in favor of funding the X1 project. 

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