re: Pictures from days gone by....

"Buried Alive With Six Lusty Pom-Pom Girls"

Dallas c. 1970

B-29 Kee Bird and crew, February 1947



A classified flight resulting in a controlled-crash landing 250 miles north of Thule Air Base. The B-29 Superfortress remained there untouched until 1993 during a recovery and restoration attempt. Wikipedia

Kee Bird covered by snow




Kee Bird prior to restoration




PBS Nova documentary on recovery and restoration B-29 Frozen in Time (54 minutes 37 seconds)

>> Don't read beyond this if you don't to see the spoiler <<






All four radial engines are replaced, props, tires, and a few other things. One of the restoration crewmembers dies after having to through surgery, though the aircraft is nearly ready to fly. The death of the chief engineer (who was also the flight engineer IIRC) and the weather conditions getting more inclement, scraps the plan until a return in 1995 with additional crewmembers.

They make maintenance repairs and a makeshift runway was cleared although it had some frozen snowdrifts. As the Kee Bird was taxing to the runway, it bounced on the snowdrifts which cause a jerry-rigged fuel tank for the APU to leak fuel to the rear of the fuselage, a fire breaks out and sweeps the entire fuselage.







The Kee Bird was abandoned and not seen until 2014 by the Digital Mapping System (DMS), an instrument attached to NASA's P-3 Orion airplane for the Operation IceBridge campaign.



(YouTube Video - 3 minutes 9 seconds) Kee Bird as of 2014. Helicopter flight and landing at the site.


Satellite imagery of its current location 80°15'45.4"N, 60°32'53.6"W

Is that from Spies Like Us?

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Is that from Spies Like Us?

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I think this was from 1983 when they married.

Privacy shield on the subway, 1980s

Come on in -- let's party

New Orleans Terminal Station on Canal Street, March 1912.

Anyone here remember this building? It was demolished in 1956.