Aircraft:
B-29 Superfortress
Location:
Unknown
Photographer:
Unknown
Registration Info:
USAAF Serial#
42-24638
History:
High over the Alabama River, a
Superfortress wings home from a training mission, to its base at
this AAF Training Command B-29 Transition School. Here at Maxwell
Field airplane commanders, pilots and flight engineers get their
training as three-man teams. Each trio spends about three weeks in
ground school and five weeks in the air learning as a unit to handle
the huge craft. Instructor teams consisting of one pilot instructor
and one flight engineer instructor, take four student trios through
the entire course. |