[ARC5] Enola Gay Junction Boxes

[Jim Haynes]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:

>
> BTW, the Curtis-Wright R-3350s in the B-29 were horribly unreliable.
> A recent issue of War Birds magazine details the problems with them.
>
> Better than 1/3 of all B-29 losses were caused by engine problems:
> failures, in-flight fires, etc.
>
I remember reading about the Soviet engineers who copied the B-29.
They said their copies were so good that the engines caught on fire
just like the U.S. made ones.