Re: Doc, (B29) took his first flight this morning.

To that point, my dad worked at Stearman/Boeing here in Wichita during WW2 and he said he always did his duty and bought war bonds. However, he said when the war was over Boeing got the call from the Military that they didn't need any more B-29's, so Boeing went out to the flight line where numerous B-29's were parked and torched perfectly good new planes into pile of scrap. A clamshell crane came along and loaded the new and newly scrapped planes into gondolas for transport to the smelter.... Dad said after he witnessed that, he never bought another government bond.

Suffice it to say, we native Wichitans are vaery proud of Doc and the volunteers who spent hundreds of thousands of hours making it fly again.

Dan