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B-29 sitting at the bottom of Lake Mead
Posted by bdk on Sat Feb 16, 2002 01:51:41 PM
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Posted by Tim King on February 15, 2002 at 15:48:28:
Do you know that there is a B-29 sitting at the bottom of Lake Mead? I did this story about two years ago and George Napp at KLAS TV in Las Vegas did the same story more recently, and with no more information than I had, if I may add! There has been much interest in this particular plane that was called "The Beetle Bomb." It went down in '48 while doing high altitude solar and gama ray testing for Johns Hopkins University and the agency that preceded the DOE. The atomic energy commission I think. Anyway, everyone escaped with their lives, it is a great story.
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- Not so much sunken as basking....... - Tony Sat Feb 16, 2002 03:12:43 PM
- Wonder why it hasn't been recovered... N/T - Scott WRG Editor Sun Feb 17, 2002 12:52:05 PM