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Based in Harlingen, Texas, 'Fifi' is on tour about nine months a year. It helps encourage patriotism and the idea of prepardedness,' McCarty said.
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So, there is a charge of $2 for a button to look at the ship's massive bomb bays, and the tailgunner bubbles.
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Mac McCarty, of McAllen, Tex., said he spends about $1,500 a year in keeping the airplane shipshape, and it takes about $2,500 an hour for fuel. I was the only one since the test pilot (in the 40s) to fly her cold.' Pilot Randy Sohn, who flies commercially out of Minneapolis, said 'we had no idea about the engine' as they looked at its hull.
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The Navy said the 'confederates' could have her if they could get her airborne within 90 days. 'Fifi' was being readied for target practice in a western desert when it was spotted by a confederate 'colonel' as he flew his commercial airliner over a restricted Navy area. The B-29 and the A-bomb saved lives in the long run, both American and Japanese.' The raid on Nagasaki came three days after Hiroshima.įormer B-29 commander Ray Tolzman, of Minneapolis, said 'no war is totally defensible, but we didn't start that one. 'There's no doubt it shortened the war and saved lives,' said Seward Hoxie, of Auburn, N.Y., who rode tailgunner on one in many firebombings of Japan that preceded the Hiroshima and Nagasaki raids - each by a single B-29. The men who flew the big planes said they thought the crowds were significant, lending support to their feelings of no regrets about the A-bomb drops. Kept flying by a group calling themselves the 'Confederate Air Force,' Fifi was picked as the most popular attraction at the huge Experimental Aircraft Association convention this week at Wittman Field.