The last flying B29

[GrahamG]

Popped into the very excellent Commemorative Air Force Museum in Midland, Texas last week, part of a road trip in the States

We'd hoped to see Fifi, the last flying B29 Superfortress but as we arrived she was being towed away from the museum hangar

There was plenty of other fantastic stuff to savour from WWII warbirds to a Vietnam exhibition, and a simply magnificent exhibition of WWII Nose art, several stunning examples saved after a guy responsible for scrapping hundreds of aircraft post war decided to cut out 34 sections to make a fence! His family donated the art to the museum and it is stunning stuff.

As we were leaving the museum the lady manning the ticket booth asked if we'd enjoyed it - We had, but said we were sorry to miss seeing Fifi up close - God bless her she got one of her colleagues to walk us across the airfield to the B29s dedicated hangar (Fifi was being put to bed to avoid the back end of Hurricane Odell which passed through the following day.

Stunning plane, and wonderful Texan hospitality

[GrahamG]

Were told that there are requests for Fifi to visit Moscow (though this is unlikely in the near future) and the UK (for Flying Legends)

That's likely to be some years away though