![]() ![]() Guess which way it was usually pointed.(hint - probably not as in the photo.) The cockpit.) Other aircraft had fans for windshield defrosting of course, but they were smaller and not very useful for cooling personnel.ī-29 cockpit fan hanging between pilot and copilot in the Enola Gay. On a hot tarmac it apparently left something to be desired.thus the installation of the first flight crew fans (but only for those under the Plexiglas ceiling in That delivered (heated) pressurized air throughout the airframe (the brown phenolic tubes strapped to the ceiling in the photo below). Prior to the B-29, most of the windows in a large aircraft couldīe opened in hot climates, apparently obviating the need for a fan, but the B-29 was a pressurized aircraft, and as a result there was an air distibution system The only other fan was suspended between the pilot and copilot, shown below. On Tinian,the heat from the sun was brutal, and the bombardier sat in a transparent cage at the front of the aircraft without a There were three of these fans in each aircraft - two for the bombardier, who was the most affected during the sometimes interminable warmupĪnd taxi sequence prior to takeoff. One of the reasons they have been hanging around for so long is that the fan, an ebay purchase, didn't have the proper mount Victims of my atrocious painting methods. For almost five years now, I have been bumping my head on pieces of a restored cockpit fan hanging in the shop, One of the oddball characteristics of the AAFRadio "flight deck" has been the addition of totally whimsical peripheral devices that have nothing intrinsically to do ![]()
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