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Wow...not first hand! But nice remaining details indeed.

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WOW! :o:

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Blimey, and they say the Chinese are good at copying.. I presume the Russians managed to put their hands on a B-29 and some blueprints too? Cos reverse-engineering a B-29 is just...wow..

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Blimey, and they say the Chinese are good at copying.. I presume the Russians managed to put their hands on a B-29 and some blueprints too? Cos reverse-engineering a B-29 is just...wow..

 

Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

 

However, on four occasions during 1944, individual B-29s made emergency landings in Soviet territory and one crashed after the crew bailed out. In accordance with the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviets were neutral in the Pacific War and the bombers were therefore interned and kept by the Soviets. Despite Soviet neutrality, America demanded the return of the bombers, but the Soviets refused. Three repairable B-29s were flown to Moscow and delivered into Tupolev OKB. One B-29 was dismantled, the second was used for flight tests and training, and the third one was left as a standard for cross-reference. With the Soviet declaration of war against Japan in accordance with the Yalta agreement to enter the war within 90 days of VE day (to allow it time to move its forces from Europe to Asia) at about 11pm on August 8, 1945 -- two days after the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and the subsequent entente with Japan ending, the fourth B-29 was returned to the US along with its crew.

 

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Blimey, and they say the Chinese are good at copying.. I presume the Russians managed to put their hands on a B-29 and some blueprints too? Cos reverse-engineering a B-29 is just...wow..

 

Strictly a reverse engineering job.

 

"The U.S. twice refused to supply the Soviet Union with B-29s under Lend Lease. However, on four occasions during 1944, individual B-29s made emergency landings in Soviet territory and one crashed after the crew bailed out. In accordance with the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviets were neutral in the Pacific War and the bombers were therefore interned and kept by the Soviets. Despite Soviet neutrality, America demanded the return of the bombers, but the Soviets refused. Three repairable B-29s were flown to Moscow and delivered into Tupolev OKB. One B-29 was dismantled, the second was used for flight tests and training, and the third one was left as a standard for cross-reference. With the Soviet declaration of war against Japan in accordance with the Yalta agreement to enter the war within 90 days of VE day (to allow it time to move its forces from Europe to Asia) at about 11pm on August 8, 1945 -- two days after the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and the subsequent entente with Japan ending, the fourth B-29 was returned to the US along with its crew."

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4#Design_and_development

 

 

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Bloody hell!  They built 847 of 'em!! :o: .  Good lord.  The B29 programme cost the US govt. nearly twice as much as the Manhattan project.  Must have been a bit of a sickener to see them handed over to Stalin for free. 

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Fook being stuck in that things for hours on end, great detail in those photos.

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It needs a bit of a clean and tidy up though.

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