Scene over the Sound: Armed Forces Day flyover

Photo by Jan Hansen

It is Armed Forces Day, and this morning there was a flyover. I think it is B-29 Superfortress bomber. 

 

From Wikipedia: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II, and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing, but also excelled in low-altitude night incendiary bombing, and in dropping naval mines to blockade Japan. B-29s dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and became the only aircraft that has ever used nuclear weapons in combat.

--Jan Hansen