Byron B-29 Bomber
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I saw this plane 2 weeks ago with Byrons great grandson chase.
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@rohdem A model jet did a vertical crash right next to a deck chair, could have killed someone, Byron got nervous about liability and sold the expo show, it didn't do so well without the factory support and died out.
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i'm still pissed that the "City of Ankeny" destroyed the expo. It was always a giant success until city bureaucrats fiddled with it, and tried to politize the event, and make it into some sort of politically correct bullsh*t event. I went every single year, in Ida, and in Ankeny, and I am from Ankeny. They turned the site into corporate development property.
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I saw this airplane's last 30 seconds of flight; halfway around the first circuit of the "pattern", there was a power problem and she went in nose-first, but with the impact out of sight of the crowd assembled for Striking Back. Stunned silence, and then it was just as if a "real" aircraft had gone down, firetrucks and the Byron people wandering around in shock. Not a happy moment.
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They dont make them like that anymore these days. Those were the good old day. Thanks for the quick response
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Again, no computerized radios in those days so you were really busy when trying to get the aircraft ready for various flight configurations.
One radio flew the flight controls, one did the flight configurations(flaps, trims, etc. and one for the starters and gear. It also served as a sort of primitive redundancy.
Cheers,
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I too was there the day this thing crashed. My family used to go to the Ida Grove/Ankeny Aviation Expo every year when I was a kid. Makes me sad that it no longer exists. Can't find much info on the internet as to what happened to it....do you know the story dptp9lf?
rohdem 3 years ago
I wasn't around at the time so I didn't see or here what happened. She was a nice bird though.
Cheers,
dptp9lf 3 years ago
Is this the one that was used in the movie "Empire of the Sun"?
ONKlub 4 years ago
Hi...
No this one was never in movie. I can't remember what year it met it's demise but I think it was in 89 or 90.
Cheers,
dptp9lf 4 years ago