The B-29 Superfortress
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- An overview of the B-29 Superfortress featuring several places it shows up in pop-culture.
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My Dad was a gunner on a B-29. The B-29 flew so high and so fast, the Japanese military only had a few planes that could reach it. And at that altitude, the closing speed was only 50-80 knots. The preferred attack was to get above and dive down on the formations for one pass.
After the dive, the Japanese pilots would linger as long as they could to attack again on the return, or to pick off the "wounded" planes.
The Japanese 105mm flak cannon was very effective against the B-29. Not by shooting them down, but by knocking out one or two engines making the B-29 fly low and slow on the way back and be easy pickings.
To reach Tokyo, they installed an auxiliary fuel tank in the rear bomb bay. This, of course, cut the bomb load in half.
The reason they stopped the "precision" bombing and went to firebombing was 1) They ran out of 500 Pound bombs. 2) low accuracy.
The B-29 used the same Nordon bombsight as the B-17. While the B-17 did a decent job with accuracy, it was only flying at 20,000 feet and moving at 200 to 210 knots. The B-29 would fly from 26,000 to 32,000 feet and scoot along at 350 knots. And the fact that Japan was a narrow island with large bodies of warm water on both sides, made for extreme winds at high altitudes. The upper winds could be east at 80 knots, but the bombs would be dropped through a layer of wind doing 150 knots at a south deration. These two combined made it so the B-29 couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. Any attempt to bomb at lower altitudes faced better flak accuracy and increased performance by the fighters.
The night firebomb raids were the start of the real losses due to combat. The bright aluminum skin of the bombers would reflect the searchlight beams and make easy aiming points for AA gunners. This is why you see B-29's later in the war with their bellies painted black.
And there are technically Three flyable B-29's. Fifi from the Commentative Air Force, Doc, restored and based at the old Wichita plant where it was built. The last is Enola Gay. She is technically flyable, just locked away.
Cool
Fantastic reply. Thankfully, someone who understands the importance of paragraphs. You wouldn't believe how much information is lost because it can't be read.
@@fred-a-stair I got fired last year because the project engineer didn't like my writing.
@@mshotz1 really...! I thought, when I wrote my reply, that I was being a bit patronising, but I can honestly tell you that your style of writing is enjoyable, readable, direct, eloquent and it is the only remark of that length that I have fully read...ever, resulting in me making that comment.
If you were fired over a writing style, it was because your boss felt threatened or was envious.
B29の搭乗員は捕まると報復の対象になって、被災した市民から凄惨な私刑でなぶり殺しにあったり、軍からは、問答無用で死刑になった。
当然の行為だけどね。
The Superfortress, perfect for when anyone gets within 10 cheeseburgers of our boats
10 cheeseburgers in length, 2 Ar-15’s, 420 .50 Caliber rounds, 5 2L Cokes. 4 Corporate slogans, 16 packs of Newports, or 1 Dragon Dildo.
People just haven't learned not to mess with America's boats.
Measuring in american is very interesting
@@OLDMANWAFFLES ah yes, the AR-15, one of the most accurate forms of measurement
Unless they are Israeli (look up the USS Liberty).
My "old man" was a sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV10) during WWII. He talked about how at times (summer 1945) the sky above his ship was just filled with hundreds of contrails from the mass of B-29s heading to bomb Japan.
My grandfather was also on CV-10 from '43-'46! Was part of E-Div.
@@flabiger Yorktown jr!
@@flabiger Hey that's great. My dad was on the Yorktown from 1945 to '46 as an EM2 (electrician's mate).
@@WAL_DC-6B Weird, my grandfather also was an EM. Was discharged at Bremerton as an EM1. He was responsible for the internal comms electronics.
@@flabiger Wow, a small world! I bet there's a good chance that your grandfather and my dad worked together on the Yorktown. Here's a video I shot of him (and later put on UA-cam) when we visited the USS Yorktown at "Patriot's Point" in Charleston, South Carolina in July 1991. ua-cam.com/video/f9cscitHt0g/v-deo.html
The B-29 being more expensive than the nuke sets a funny precedent to me: the reason why nuke missile systems are expensive not because of the nuke (already a major investment for any country) but because of the rockets all otger support system needed to keep that rocket in operation...
Truth. You can go on DOD budget documents and see how much they pay each FY year just for new/refurbished rockets.
Is this why the Americans just upgrade existing platforms instead of making new ones?
@@Joshua_N-A Partly. They DO shoot off some test missiles each year - to make sure everything works as advertised - but the actual missile families/types, or for that matter, many major weapon systems in US inventory, haven't really changed from the 1980's when most were developed/made.
(though improvements over the years have drastically improved performance in some, such as the Patriot SAM.)
I had three points i assumed you wouldnt mention and would add. The cost being larger than the Manhattan project, the magnesium in the engines, and the soviet tu-4. And you nailed all three. I dont know why i ever doubted you.
Also my great uncle was involved in modifying the enola gay to carry the nuclear bombs.
Haha glad I didn't disappoint! But I do always appreciate when people add things I missed. My videos are pretty brief so it's always helpful.
Never realised just how gargantuan the Pacific Ocean is until your comparison in the video, good work as always! Nice to see a Grave of the Fireflies, but hope the heaviness of this video didn't get to you too much
yah it's a heavy topic... I almost left out my pun at the end as I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to be jokey on such subjects. But I gotta lighten my mood after these videos somehow right?
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq No need Johnny, we make jokes of sad things to make tem bearable.
It should also be pointed out that the engines on this monster used 140 octane gasoline. One of the highest octane piston driven engines ever produced.
Higher octane because of higher compression? If so I’m wondering what that ratio was for them
Is that good or bad?
@@MM22966 The higher the octane number, the more compression the fuel can withstand without pre-ignition. Higher compression engines often have better performance, but the octane rating doesn't automatically mean more power. In short, it's complex and there are trade-offs but state-of-the-art engines of the past often *required* high octane fuel.
That is really good to know on that and a beast considering the time it was flown in.
@@arthurneddysmith Thanks!
It's been my honor to see the B-29 FIFI flying on 5-6 separate occasions. No matter where you are on the airfield, you can feel her take off and land. About 10ish years ago, she was grounded due to engine issues and each had to be replaced at 1 million a piece! God bless the crews that keep her and the other warbirds flying!
There’s a well noted obsession with German “wunderwaffe”, no doubt largely the result of 90s and early-00s History Channel programming…
It however ignores how in many many areas the Allies, and in-particular the US, were very far ahead of the Axis technologically.
The B-29 probably best represents how far ahead the US was. The engineering involved in building such an aircraft, the advanced electronics and avionics, and the sheer industrial capabilities to then mass produce them.
It’s a stark reminder that even if the Germans were able to properly mass produce their “wunderwaffe” it would only be a matter of time before there’d be a devastating response from the Allies/US.
Ive been very fortunate to climb in both flying B29s, Fifi and Doc. This past May 4th, I took my girls to watch Doc land and fly around in Newport News. My dad and I got to climb inside the next day. I took 2 of my girls on a grocery run the day after that and watched Doc fly around, land and take off. Wish I could share pictures here sometime. PS on the B50, 20 years ago I found a B50 nose, the very front nose in a wooded area in my dads front yard. I traded it for an M1 rifle.
I went to see FIFI In Brunswick GA, airport, got several photos and pics. Got to climb in and see the cockpit and all, she was Gorgeous loved every minute of it.
the gunner station looks cozy AF. Long flights and good book, maybe some shootin... sign me up
...aaaaand a lot of planes exploding out on nowhere. Almost 1/3rd of the losses were inflicted because of the pressurization system malfunctioning and detonating the payload.
Crews were always thinking about it because it was keen to happen especially after taking off.
B-29 vs. Ki-44, Donald Nijboer is the source for this.
Gunners had the highest casualty rate out of all the flight crews during the war
You have fun with that.
Ignorance is bliss
I met a man in church and noticed half his hand was missing. As I became to know him better I asked one day…if you don’t mind telling,how did you lose your hand? He said”I flew on B29s in the pacific during the war. I was a radio operator and one of my duties was to stand up and look thru a little window into the bomb bay and confirm all bombs were away. As I did one day a piece of flak came up thru my seat and cut my hand. But would have killed me if I hadn’t gotten up at that moment “…. I have so much respect and thank all who serve. Rest in peace Herb
lt was an amazing plane for it's time......Thanks my friend Johnny Johnson.....
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Also can thank about that and also speaking of planes that seem similar to that look up Tupolev TU-95 and who knows maybe tell Johnny all about it anyway give it a Google and UA-cam.
Ah the Superfortress, it overall isnt one of my favorite looking planes, But honestly i really love its unique cockpit design with the massive windows.
Really don't make it like that anymore and also speaking of planes that look like it and still flying try the Tupolev TU-95 otherwise known as the Bear as well and recommend it for a future video.
I know of a B-50 Superfortress that’s currently disassembled but it’s the very first plane to ever fly around the world nonstop, did so in 1949
From what I have studied. Said Fire Bombing raid on Tokyo burned out 17 square miles of Tokyo. The first Atomic bomb, only burned out 4 square miles. Of course there was the fire storm and blast wave.
how many b29 in the firebombing ? how many b29 for one atomic bomb ?
They only bombed near the coast, and the winds carried the fire inland.
@@Trampwithabbq That's what the Japanese balloon bombs were sent to do to the PNW. One landed not 20 km away from me , but it never went off. They would call it karma.
Logan:"That was a B-29, bub. Cannot outrun what's coming."
Absolutely love your videos. Can you do one of the B-52 Stratofortress aka the BUFF?
Will do just need some time on that big project
In Girls und panzer Saunders University does have a B-29.
Ah another person of culture
Hello my brothers, I see you are also men of culture
I thought they only have just the C-5. Gotta rewatch GuP.
Yes they have Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Douglas DC-3
General Aircraft GAL.49 Hamilcar Glider
Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy
Lockheed C-130H Hercules
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation
Lockheed U-2R Dragon Lady
McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender
Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe
I feel he should talk about the M14 rifle in Vietnam
I got to be inside of one of those airworthy B29s last year. Fifi was at an air show near me. I've also seen Bockscar at Wright Patterson AFB. Very famous B29 there. The B24 will always be my favorite American bomber of WW2, but the B29 is a real marvel of aviation.
I’ve been waiting for this video for ages
Excellent work 👏
Can you please do a special on WW2 gliders? The types and countries that used them.
04:20 seen both of them flying together at Oshkosh a few years ago. Also met Chuck Yeager there, back in 2011 or something.
Great video, I really enjoyed it. War birds are my favorite subjects and I have been lucky enough to fly in several. A fun side note, I just happened to be wearing my "DOC" B29 tee-shirt when I saw this video.
Awesome video!! B-29s were also built at the Boeing plants in Wichita, KS. B-29 training was also conducted out of Great Bend Army Air Base in Great Bend, KS. There is a nice memorial dedicated to the bombers/crews that trained at Great Bend, KS. Also, the ENOLA GAY and BOCKS CAR and crews trained out of Great Bend, and they are a prominent part of the memorial. The B-29, THE GREAT ARTISTE (the bomber that flew both nuke missions with recording instruments) is on static display at Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster, MO - home of the 509th Bomb Group. ENOLA GAY is at the Smithsonian and BOCKS CAR is at the Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. Have seen BOCKS CAR & THE GREAT ARTISTE in person. Believe I have seen ENOLA GAY as a kid in the 1970s.
Also, if I remember correctly, I believe something like 3 (could be wrong about the number) B-29s were flown to England. They were later flown to India, then China. However. they were supposedly deliberately flown over Germany with the full intent of the Germans seeing the new aircraft flying at an altitude where their fighters and AAA cannot get to them. Supposedly the Germans developed the TA-152 fighter by Focke-Wulf in response to the B-29 in order to have a fighter capable of flying high enough to combat the B-29. Since the B-29 threat never materialized, the TA-152s were used for other purposes.
Have seen the B-29s FIFI & DOC in person as well at various air shows. Also got to watch them turn on those powerful engines, zoom down a runway, lift off and fly around and land - just awesome site to see (as long as not on the receiving end). Last time I saw FIFI was at an air show in the Indianapolis, IN, area about 10-years ago and last time I saw DOC was at an air show in the Topeka, KS, area about 6-years ago.
Hey now wait a minute…. I was just loudly talking to myself while watching a asbestos video about how good the b29 was. And magically its top of my recommended. Hmmm….
My grandfather was an instructor pilot for the Army Air Force during the war and was stationed in Marfa, Texas where part of his service included teaching new aircrews to fly the B-29. He kept some of his training manuals after the war, and they made for some fascinating reading when I was a kid hanging out in his study.
Another interesting pop-culture tie-in for the B-29 which not everyone knows was that the B-29's cockpit was the model for that part of the "Millennium Falcon" in "STAR WARS", fun fact!
I think this was your best video yet!
Thanks so much. These longer videos are a struggle to organize for me!
Curious Droid has a video on the problems of the B29. NACA (NASA’s predecessor) did studies to help solve this problem. Modifications to both plane (better cooling to the engine) and engine (enlarging the heat sinks on the plane) mitigated the problem. The fire control system was impressive for the time. The gunners only had to track the target and input the target’s wingspan for the gun to compute a firing solution (explained through a cartoon available in You tube).
Shout-out to the WOLVERINE movie and its oddly picturesque opening scene of a B29 dropping the Nagasaki bomb as Logan watches (and then gets french-fried) on the opposite side of the harbor.
An excellent choice, an iconic aircraft, enjoy the rest of the weekend, cheers, Johnny...E...😊
My late dad and my now 86 year old aunt were at the receiving end of a B-29 bombing run in Kuala Lumpur, in present day Malaysia, i assume in late 1944 or early 1945. At the time their parents lived near the main railway yards of the city. They had to run to a local park away from the mayhem. Both of them remember seeing a huge piece of cast iron, probably from a dismembered train flying thru the air and land not far from where they were taking shelter. Malaya and Singapore were under Japanese control at the time.
My grandpa worked on these planes during the Korean War. I don’t know much more than that, but I think his airbase getting shelled at some point in the war really rattled him into not saying much about it.
Always a great day when you post something johnny..mark Felton more regular..but still second to johnny in delivery
Awe my favorite plan from New Vegas
Easily worth giving the NCR air support, in my eyes. Down with House and Caesar!
That cockpit window had such a unique look
Quite similiar to the Heinkel He 111 designs though
Thanks Johnny, some of your best work yet! Please keep it up!
Interesting to see a clip from Grave of the Fireflies. and other anime, Watching that again this upcoming August 9 after In this corner of the World on the 6th. B-29 production used a very rudimentary MRP, mostly due to inventory storage space limitations at the production sites. It had over 1,000,000 parts.
This video was great. And thanks for talking about the fire bombings, they are among the top 3 worst things we have ever done. My teacher showed us a licture of a japenese city, he said it was fire bombed, not hirishima or nagasaki, it looked the same.
Whenever there was flak or fighters, the B29 was depressurized to prevent a catastrophic depressurization. So the gunners had to engage in combat with oxygen
Don’t know why that little animation at 7:28 made me laugh but it did.
I still find it funny that the entire B-29 project was way more expensive than the entire monetary history of the Manhattan Project.
a 10+ minutes Johnny vid?
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Hello Johnny Johnson .
A Rare Fact .
The Chinese PLAAF designed their first indigenious AWACS / EWS system nicknamed KJ-1 which was based on a Heavily modified Tupolev Tu-4 with Turboprop Engines.
Great content as always Johnny. You should look into the Mexican Mondragon semi-automatic rifle 1908. Never imagined Mexicans, had a rifle like that, 7 years before WW1, and 30 years, before WW2.
Fun facts:
80's new wave band made a song about the Enola Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Actor Charles Bronson served as a tail gunner in one of the B-29 super fortress.
Well, that was a super episode, Johnny. Catch ya on the next one, take care.
How far should our new bomber fly?
The Us: Yes.
Thanks again, Johnny
Didn't learn anything cause I'm too much of a ww2 aviation nerd but your videos ate akways enjoyable to watch!
Ive seen the Enola Gay and Boxcar in museums. Now i want to see Fifi.
Amazing video. As always!
I had read that when bombing Japan, once at altitude, there was a queue, miles long stretching towards Japan. On their return, crews found paint blistered from the heat of firebombing
私の祖父に空襲の時を聞きました、祖父は山のほうに逃げました。しかし多くの人は火に焼かれるのを恐れて川の中に逃げました。空襲が終わって祖父が町に戻ってみた光景は
川の中に子供やお母さんやお年寄りが浮かんでいました。火が近くの酸素を奪って人は酸欠で亡くなっていました。戦争で犠牲になるのは罪のない人々です・・・
Not sure I've ever heard Chuck Yeager referred to as Charles Yeager.
Yah even felt weird saying it. Not even sure why I did.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq it's perfect actually
Remember its only a war crime when you lose the war.
No B-29, no carrying the war to Japan. Whether the Bomb was a succes we had to have the B-29. The B-50 fixed the engine problems but it was to be short lived due to the B-47 and -52. I skipp the -36 as it was obsolete when it entered service.
Actually, the engine problems on the B-29 were resolved during WWII. Consequently, the same Wright R-3350 engines would be used on airliners such as the Lockheed Constellation series, Douglas DC-7s, and military aircraft such as the Lockheed P2V Neptune, Fairchild C-119 (Kaiser built versions) and the Douglas AD Skyraider. The B-50 would remain a strategic bomber up to 1955.
It the first step of the kind of bomber we know today as
“long range strategic bomber”
like B-52 Stratofortress, B1 Lancer and B2 Spirit
"Grave of the Fireflies" is definitely one of the most sad and horrific films I've ever seen. It's undeniably the darkest of Hiyao Miyazaki's animes. Nevertheless, everybody should watch it once.
When will miyazaki create an anime during nanking or basically every nation that got occupied by his nation
@BarryAllen__1A23 well said. I like his animes, but he selectively overlooks what Imperial Japan did. Not really surprising, as it is common knowledge that he's anti-American.
@@oooTACooo Me too if only he was fair in his portrayals of anti war themes then people wont mock japan for their ignorance of ww2 knowledge
This is what my great-grandfather saw on August 6, 1945.
These docs are so well done. I appreciate you Johnny Johnson.
Johnny going nuclear with the Dad jokes. 😅😊
Read "Smithsonian, the jet that shocked the west". Mig-15's could easily climb to high altitudes to shoot down a B-29. The kill ratio between F-86 Sabres and Migs was not 15 to 1 but it's complicated as explained in the article.
Great video, but I wish you would use meters and kilometers when talking about plane specs and distance. I'm American too, but the metric system is just better for technical info.
I'm Canadian and personally prefer the metric system. I tend to try and use native systems so imperial when discussing American planes. But I get ya it's kind of a pain.
Heck yeah. Always sobering to imagine being inside one of these beast while in combat
We need this in helldivers 2
Babe wake up , Johnny posted again
I went inside of the B-29 FiFi and it was awesome!!!
I was kinda hoping to see footage from "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark".
Those gun stations pretty much ARE the turret stations on the Millenium Falcon. I think they even used the hardware.
For how advanced it is, the B-29 isn't that impressive live. Bocks Car sits on the Museum floor in Dayton, (there is a B-50 somewhere else, and you can walk through the body of "command decision") but the B-36 and B-70 are on an entirely different level.
A real, menacing display of USA might. And a technological masterpiece at the same time
罪のない子供やお母さんが焼夷弾にて苦しみ焼かれました、私の家も焼かれました、隣の家は防空壕に焼夷弾が直撃したため家族全員死亡しました。
戦後８０年たった今でも、私は冥福をお祈りします。
Shouldnt have started the war then
@@BarryAllen__1A23 “ShOuLdN’t HaVe StArTeD ThE wAr ThEn”
@@yoseipilot And?
I’m gonna be honest, I feel emotional, and not in a good way, watching this video on the B-29 than any of your videos I’ve seen.
US Bombers WW II has an excellent series on the B-29: ua-cam.com/play/PLO7SMfMqEYq55xBSDo843pmHEkC5ss89y.html
One surprising one shows that the capture of Iwo Jima cost more lives than it saved among B-29 crew. Of course, that wasn't know in advance. But it's a fantastic channel and a fantastic series if you're interested in the B-17, B-24, and B-29.
We also can't forget the Korean war movie operation chromite (2016) when the b-29 was featured in the movie
I had no idea that we, the UK, operated so many B-29's, or operated them at all.
Holy shite you are at 200k now?
What a waste for both sides.
I've learned that the casualties among the B-29 crews were almost the same as those of the Kamikaze pilots.
Wow $3 Billion that is staggering for that era
War is heck.
Whats the name of the music in the beginning?
Epic Battle Speech - Wayne Jones
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thank you!
私の家の近くにB-29の墜落現場の跡に慰霊碑のようなものが建てられています。
Back in 44’ my grandfather was a Boeing whistleblower, and he was set to testify against Boeing for their use of children’s souls in plane manufacturing, but the day before the trial he magically disappeared, only leaving a note that read “I went to get milk, be back in a few years” but he never came back.
thank you !!!
Is a uranium split like a banana split?
I often wonder if Japan would have been better off if the US had dropped the nukes earlier. Japan knew they were going to lose but the military was determined to take as many Americans as they could during the final days of the war. The atom bomb made it clear that Japan would be destroyed without giving Japan the opportunity to fight back. Maybe if the bomb had been dropped earlier, fewer Japanese (and Americans) would have died in WWII.
Those firebombing raids to Tokyo were horrific. I don't have the emotional strength to watch *Grave of the Fireflies* even though I hear it's a good movie.
Thanks for another interesting video Johnny.
The whole point of the nukes was to avoid the invasion of mainland Japan, which would have cost millions more lives.
@@AdamantLightLP "would have cost millions more lives."
I remember learning about all the Purple Heart Medals the US made in preparation. Not only did it save US lives, I think it saved Japanese lives. I know the bomb wasn't ready earlier but I wonder if it had been if even more lives could have been saved.
I read a memoir of a Japanese officer on Okinawa. The way the Japanese fought to the death was really disturbing. It sure seems like the atomic bomb was needed to get Japan to surrender.
@@ddegn The fact that it saved Japanese lives is not lost on the Japanese populace. Most in Japan do not regard the atomic bombings on their own land as a crime. When speaking of the tragic loss of life, the US is not blamed for the bombings as much as the Japanese government and military. My Japanese grandmother views the final bombings (both nuclear and incendiary) as a terrible but necessary evil that probably saved her and her husband's life. At the time, she was a teenager learning to fight with a naginata (a medieval polearm). My grandfather was fighting on the frontlines in mainland Asia. Both would have likely died if the war had lasted longer.
When this one showed up in New Vegas even briefly it was insane got chills and tears everytime worth being friends with boomers just for that
Yep that’s the same kind of plane is the Enola Gay
Good video.
Great video.
Couple of points though, JJ. First, we need to stop saying the B17 is ‘excellent” as it was not. It carried a poor bomb load, had a terrible bomb sight and had poor defensive armament. They got slaughtered.
Operation Starvation did more damage than the fire bombing - which is saying something.
The A Bombs were very nearly carried by RAF Lancasters due to bomb bay issues with the 29’s. This would have been suicidal for the lanc crews due to altitude and speed and range.
Split atom …….. worst/best yet
$600k in 1940s $. Wow. 💰
the plane that took the war to Japan
YOU have a nice rest or YOUR day.
B29 engines glowed red hot while climbing after dropping the atom bomb
Those B-29s didn't climb after dropping their bombs on their target cities in Japan. Instead, they turned about 150 degrees to get away as quickly as they could to put as much distance as possible from the shock wave from the bomb's blast.
Japanese fighters could not reach the B29 altitude.
One of these is going to be World War 2 Weekend at Reading Airport Pennsylvania
Make a video about the Yak3
My Nan worked on the silver plate bombers so there’s a non-zero chance she contributed to one of the bombings.
Why did the plane's skin always shine so brightly? Never painted but chromed, but because of what??
Magnesium in the engines, LOL, no wonder modern boing playnes have doors that eject themselves.
And now, Boeing makes self-jettisoning doors for its commercial aircraft. =9[.]9=