B29 Frozen In Time Pt 3

B-29 Frozen in Time follows Darryl Greenamyer and his crew as they try to retrieve an almost intact B-29 from the Arctic Circle. The airplane crash-landed nearly 50 years earlier during a secret mission for the United States. The pilots survived the crash and were rescued, but the B-29 was left in the harsh and unforgiving climate 250 miles north of Thule, Greenland. Greenamyer, a former test pilot who set a low-altitude speed record in a jet he built from spare parts, believes that he can actually fly the plane after performing some maintenance and building a short runway. He flies in parts for the B-29 and a massive bulldozer to clear the runway, but every takeoff is dangerous in these conditions, and he and his crew have a short window for success due to the brief summer. Greenamyer also faces a limited budget and other difficult hurdles as they try to resurrect a piece of history and fly it home.


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• B-29
• Superfortress
• Thule
• Darryl
• Greenamyer
• RB-29
• Cold
• War
• Greenland

[trumpetbeek]

Rick = Hard Bastard.

[galloway62042009]

@Steve181 Meh. Its more entertaining like this

[FiveCentsPlease]

@Steve181

This info is probably old, but I believe they started with a $500K budget and each flight with equipment was around $15K. They had hoped to sell the plane for around $1M (in 1994 dollars.)

[Steve181]

@FiveCentsPlease With the benefit of hindsight though a sky crane would have been the better option, make a couple of trips one for the fuselage & wings etc. As you say I'm sure they did the maths & it was there way or nothing.

[FiveCentsPlease]

@Steve181

It was a for-profit recovery operation and renting a heavy lift Sky Crane that guzzles fuel and has a short range would have been very expensive.

[19mg94]

@Steve181 thats what i thought when i watched this

[greenrate]

@Steve181

I bet that if you look at the money numbers . . . they explain a lot that isn't immediately obvious.

For example: this "entertaining" way of rescuing the plane . . . means they could sell the rights to someone to film the entertainment.

[2ndhanseimen]

rick is a bad mofo when it comes to fixin shit

[riotagus]

 Excellent series .

[seasonedtoker]

@Steve181 yeah but the only problem to them is the fact that it's Russian lol

[stephenzenaida]

i really dont understand, if your going to spend millions on four beautiful new double wasp engines, wouldnt you think to make sure raw fuel doesnt spill on a hot apu in the cockpit, what were these clowns thinking?? all that were taking our time doing it right and then ya blow it on the last day in a complete rush, WTF

[Eurofighter19]

I'm growing increasingly worried seeing that old cargo plane take off and land on such soft terrain.

[Steve181]

They should have just hired a massive Russian helicopter to fly it away to a warm hanger for restoration.

[oceantrolls73]

hey thanks buddy for that reply...  some adventure these guys had. take care

[jordan32277]

@oceantrolls73 hey bud i thimk that it might be still working generators i can here a sqeual and at 655 u can here a generator so im guessing a generator operating the hydrualics :)

[oceantrolls73]

can landing gears at 6:35 be lowered and raised without running engines? where does the hydraulic pressure come from? thanks anyone.

[fordxbgtfalcon]

thanks for posting this

[MAXIE590]

@KartKing4ever LOL

[GRATZIANI2002]

to manage a project like this it looks a little tricky, but this guys looks that they have no room for planing....it's sort of Discovery, wow, what a danger!, wow, how hard!, wow, impossible!...

[KartKing4ever]

7:36 bitch hahaha

[MrRicardo1962]

agradable desempeño

nice perfomans