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[News Clip: Aircraft]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 24, 1977, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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An Investigation of Cowl-Flap and Cowl-Outlet Designs for the Boeing B-29 Power-Plant Installation

Description: Report discussing an investigation into cowl-flap and cowl-outlet designs for the B-29 in order to determine the effects of cowling performance of different types of flaps and elements of flaps. Details of the available pressure drop and cooling-air pressure-drop distribution are also provided.
Date: January 1946
Creator: Wyatt, DeMarquis D. & Conrad, E. William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with David Braden, October 8, 1994

Description: Interview with David Braden, an Army Air Force WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas. Braden served as a navigator/radar-bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific; he recounts being in ROTC at North Texas Agricultural College and signing up for the Air Corps Reserves, flight training, the B-29, his crewmates, assignment to Saipan, organization of a bombing mission, the jetstream, flak and fighters, being shot down, switching crews, targets, briefings, recreation, Japanese holdouts on Saipan, … more
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Date: October 8, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Braden, David, 1924-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[News Clip: Confederate A.F.]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: July 8, 1983
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Wonsan Landing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story about fifty thousands (50K) marines are GI's landing in Wonsan, North Korea during Operation What The Heck. The troops capture the city of South Korea and save Americans from a death trap of a thousand floating mines in the Korean harbor.
Date: November 12, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Ten are Dead in Crash of Bomber]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an Air Force B-29 catching fire and crashing, leaving 10 members of the crew dead.
Date: April 29, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: B-29 fleet is being dismantled]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dismantling and scrapping of the World War II-era fleet of B-29 bombers stored at Pyote Air Force Base in West Texas. A handful of the historic planes are to be preserved for museum display.
Date: October 16, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Texas news review]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about recent news from across Texas including a B-29 plane crashing while coming in for a landing at Carswell Air Force Base, a convention of prison wardens in Dallas, an excavation ditch caving in and trapping two workers in Dallas, a 16 year old girl being arrested for robbing a dry goods store, Robert B. Anderson speaking at TCU, the annual "wedding" of old and new students at Texas Wesleyan University, the only blac… more
Date: September 30, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Longitudinal Stability and Control Characteristics of a B-29 Airplane with a Booster Incorporated in the Elevator Control System to Provide Various Stick-Force and Control-Rate Characteristics

Description: The longitudinal stability and control characteristics of a B-29 airplane have been measured with a booster incorporated in the elevator control system. Tests were made to determine the effects on the handling qualities of the test airplane of variations in pilots control-force gradients as well as the effects of variations in the maximum rate of control motion supplied by the booster system.
Date: 1948
Creator: Mathews, Charles W.; Talmage, Donald B. & Whitten, James B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Structural Vulnerability of the Boeing B-29 Aircraft Wing to Damage by Warhead Fragments

Description: "An elementary type of analysis has been used to determine the amount of wing tip that must be severed to produce irrevocable loss of control of a B-29 airplane. The remaining inboard structure of the Boeing B-29 wing has then been analyzed and curves are presented for the estimated reduction in structural strength due to four general types of damage produced by rod-type warhead fragments. The curves indicate the extent of structural damage required to produce a kill of the aircraft within 10 s… more
Date: August 1952
Creator: Kordes, Eldon E. & O'Sullivan, William J., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gust-Tunnel Investigation to Determine the Load at the Joint of a Coupled Airplane Configuration Encountering a Gust

Description: "An investigation has been made in the Langley gust tunnel with two identical airplane models approximating 1/40-scale models of the B-29, coupled in tandem with a boom so that the individual centers of gravity were equidistant from the single coupling joint at the tail of the lead airplane. Time histories of the boom joint load were obtained as the models were flown through a gust. The results indicate that on a similar configuration involving airplanes the size of B-29 airplanes a load on the… more
Date: January 1950
Creator: Cahen, George L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Texas news review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a weekly news review of local stories including a B-29 plane crashing while coming in for a landing at Carswell Air Force Base, the only black mayor in Texas, and a convention of model railroad enthusiasts in Fort Worth.
Date: September 30, 1951
Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oral History Interview with P.K. Carlton, June 30, 2004, Parts 1-2]

Description: Parts 1 and 2 of an interview with U.S. Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force veteran General P. K. Carlton. Carlton speaks about his association with General Curtis LeMay, bomber operations against Japan and Japanese occupied territory, his assignment with the Strategic Air Command Operations staff under LeMay, and the role of the SAC and the B-52 in relations with the Soviets. Additionally, Carlton speaks about LeMay's role in creating a safety program for the SAC and in building SAC's communica… more
Date: June 30, 2004
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Hurley, Alfred F. & Carlton, P. K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oral History Interview with P. K. Carlton, June 30, 2004, Part 3]

Description: Part 3 of an interview with U.S. Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force veteran General P. K. Carlton. Carlton speaks about his association with General Curtis LeMay, bomber operations against Japan and Japanese occupied territory, his assignment with the Strategic Air Command Operations staff under LeMay, and the role of the SAC and the B-52 in relations with the Soviets. Additionally, Carlton speaks about LeMay's role in creating a safety program for the SAC and in building SAC's communications s… more
Date: June 30, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Hurley, Alfred F. & Carlton, P. K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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