Boeing B-29 & B-50 Superfortress by Kevin Darling (Warpaint Series No.143)

Boeing B-29 and B-50 Superfortress (Warpaint Series No. 143)

This publication from the Warpaint Series for modelers deals with the American four-engine heavy bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress and its more capable successor, the B-50. It is not a model but a specialist book that serves modelers as a pictorial and factual source and other readers as an account of the history of American strategic air power.

What the book contains

• The history of the development and service of the B-29 and B-50 types
• Period photographs in black and white and in color
• Color profiles of camouflage and marking schemes
• Scale drawings as a source for building a model
• A survey of variants and units

The real subject

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was an advanced four-engine bomber with a pressurized cabin and remotely controlled defensive armament, used at the end of the Second World War in the Pacific. The postwar B-50 was a considerably improved version with more powerful engines and went on serving through the Cold War, among other things as a tanker and a reconnaissance aircraft.

Who the book is for

For modelers building American strategic bombers, for collectors of aviation literature and for anyone interested in air force history. The Warpaint series format is a softcover A4 publication in English.