*** Answering a msg posted in area ECHO_PM0 (GEcho PM for Jay Hanig).
21 Jan 98 12:16, TONY PATON wrote to JAY HANIG:
 JH>>> 29 Dec 97 15:17, TONY PATON wrote to JIM DAWSON: The early
 JH>>> non-turbocompound (but turbocharged) R-3350s were not very
 JD>>> reliable but were sufficiently so to make regular trips betweeen
 JD>>> Guam, Tinian and Siapan to Japan as neede in '44 & '45.
 TP>> In what aircraft?
 JH>> B-29s.
 TP> Interesting, what did the updated verion have as powerplants? B-50 i 
think
 TP> it was called.
You're probably right.  In a visit to Wright Patterson's AF Museum, I 
remember looking at a B-50, which certainly looked exactly like a B-29 to me. 
 Beautiful airplane.....
Jay
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