Boeing 'B-29 Superfortress'. 'First B-29 in Europe lands at Orly.
Boeing 'B-29 Superfortress'. 'First B-29 in Europe lands at Orly. The first B-29 Superfortress to land on the European Continent is shown at Orly airfield, outside Paris, where it put down September 4, 1945. The non-stop flight of 2,300 nautical miles from Goose Bay, Labrador, was made in nine hours and twenty-one-minutes, breaking the trans-Atlantic record set by a Constellation. Major Charles T. Moreland, a Texas member ...