Even with its 30-foot wing-tips removed, the B-29 is a handful as it is pushed into the restoration hangar at the Strategic Air & Space Museum on Sept. 9, 2006 -- the beginning of the six-year restoration.
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bombermotor
Restoration volunteer Jim Fink spray paints pushrod covers from one of the four 18-cylinder engines on the Strategic Air & Space Museum's B-29 in August 2007 -- five years before the restoration was finished.
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bomberbay
Restoration co-manager Duane Dilts traces control cables in one of the B-29 bomb bays as he worked on the Superfortress at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland in February 2010.
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bomberbreak
Volunteers Stanley Olson (from left), Walt Meier, Bill Schaffhausen, Chuck Karrick and Jimmy Lee Fink swap stories on their lunch break during a shift at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in February 2010 during the six-year restoration of a B-29 Superfortress.
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bomberpaint
Volunteer Chuck Karrick of Omaha sprays primer on a control panel used by the B-29's bombardier at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland on Feb. 2, 2010.
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B-29 bombs
Walt Meier of Lincoln gets ready to paint yellow trim on one of the six replica bombs he built for display in the Boeing B-29 at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland on Sept. 20, 2012.
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B-29 inside
Volunteers Don Skaw (left) and Chuck Karrick sit in the radio operator and navigator seats inside the restored Boeing B-29 at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland, Sept. 20, 2012.
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B-29 cockpit
The cockpit of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress gleams Sept. 20, 2012, after a six-year restoration at the Strategic Air & Space Museum.
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B-29 clean
Volunteer Don Cook of Lincoln dusts the fuselage of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in preparation Sept. 20, 2012, for its official unveiling after a six-year restoration at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland.
