YB-29 at Pratt, Kansas

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A couple of things I did not know about the initial B29 test version: there is what looks like a gun blister just below and aft of the cockpit area and another behind the wing, and a bubble extension on the nose.

My father was stationed at Pratt for a while, between his time at Ellington Field near Houston and the Boeing School at Seattle. He said Kansans didn’t like Texans, and he returned the favor. But that was long ago, when people who remembered the cattle drives were still around, as were a few Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers.