Curious Droid's video: Was the B-29 Superfortress a Failure

Go to https://establishedtitles.com/DROID10 and help support us here at Curious Droid. They are now running a massive sale, plus 10% off on any purchase with code DROID10. Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this video. Although the B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced propeller driven bomber of WW2, it also was a rush job to get in to production as the war in the Pacific intensified. This opened it up to mistakes in lots of areas but in particular the Curtis-Wright R-3350 engines which caused the death of one of the worlds top test pilots and his crew due the prototype testing and many other crews during operations, an issues that wasn't fully resolved until after the war. Was the B-29 a failure? we look at the issues and what was done to fix them. Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Boeing, Consolidated Aircraft ,NACA, USAAC, US DoD And a big thanks go to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Adriaan_von_Grobbe Alipasha Sadri Andrew Smith Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Collin Copfer Daniel Davenport Dom Riccobene erik ahrsjo Etienne Dechamps Florian Muller George Bishop II Glenn Dickinson Henning Bitsch inunotaisho Jesse Postier Jim Early Jonathan Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Lorne Diebel Mark Heslop oldGhostbear Paul Freed Paul Shutler pizza smuggler Pu239 Samuel Finch SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve Ehrmann Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort tesaft Thales of Miletus Tim Alberstein Tomasz Leszczyński Will Lowe Music from the Youtube Library 1940s Slow Dance by Doug Maxwell Media Right Productions