Boeing B-29 Superfortress

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as 44-61748 ‘It’s Hawg Wild’, IWM Duxford’s Boeing B-29A Superfortress, built at Renton, Washington, flown on night bombing raids over North Korea by the 371st Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Group from Kadena, Okinawa in 1952–53, used as a missile target at the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, California from 1956, given to the Imperial War Museum by the US Navy in 1979 and flown across the Atlantic to Duxford as G-BHDK in March 1980, now displayed in the American Air Museum: a four-engined, pressurised long-range heavy bomber of 141 ft 3 in span with four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone eighteen-cylinder radials in long underslung nacelles, a rounded, heavily framed glazed nose, a high-aspect-ratio wing, a tall fin with a long dorsal fillet, remotely controlled dorsal and ventral gun turrets, sighting blisters, a tail gun position and a twin-wheel tricycle undercarriage, shown standing level with the nose-wheel doors open: natural metal above gloss black undersides that rise to a scalloped edge on the fuselage and nacelles, a yellow nose band, wing tips and fin tip, the 307th Bomb Group’s black square ‘Y’ and the black serial ‘461748’ on the fin, ‘UNITED STATES AIR FORCE’ on the forward fuselage, star-and-bar insignia on the rear fuselage and under the wings, the charging-hog nose art on the starboard side, ‘748’ in yellow on the nose-wheel doors and black propellers with yellow tips. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (2.1 MB) · Plate 107 in The Hangar