Superfortress, the Boeing B-29 - Aircraft Specials series

Squadron Aircraft Specials #6028

by Steve Birdsall, Don Greer (Illustrator), Rob Stern (Illustrator)

The B-29 was the original production version of the Superfortress. Since the new bomber was urgently needed, the production design was developed in tandem with the service testing. In fact, the first B-29 was completed only two months after the delivery of the first YB-29. Forty-six B-29s of this variant, built by the Glenn L. Martin Company at its Omaha plant, were used as the aircraft for the atomic bomb missions, modified to Silverplate specifications. Some 2,513 B-29s were manufactured by Boeing-Wichita (1,620), Bell-Atlanta (357), and Martin-Omaha (536).[4]

80 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1980

About the author

Steve Birdsall (born 1944) of Sydney, Australia, is an aviation writer who has authored many articles and books since the 1960s. He has been published by Air Classics, Flying Review International, Airpower Historian, and the American Aviation Historical Society Journal.
Birdsall toured briefly in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, as a correspondent for an Australian magazine. He flew several airborne missions including one in the A-1 Skyraider, about which he later wrote an illustrated history.
He should not be confused with American travel writer Stephen S. Birdsall.

Reviews

[Randall Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty Good--obviously like most people, the Author is more ''into'' WW2 than Korea. That is the major fault of this book. Still, Even Korean War b-29s are well represented in Photographs.