Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.invalid> wrote in
news:ejoa5d5vv3b5rkbkgrn6048vs5r5k9egrd@4ax.com:
> On 9 Jan 2018 16:19:29 -0800, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
> wrote:
>
>>In article <jsla5d50spna48sob525slu7k1pkbpark4@4ax.com>, Stormin'
>>Norman says...
>>>
>>>I seem to remember that during the war, when the B-29 production
>>>lines were running at capacity, it supposedly took 5 days to assemble
>>>one aircraft, from the first part until it was rolled off the line
>>>and out of the hangar.
>>>
>>>I tried to locate data to confirm this, but came up craps.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any definitive information about this?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>http://www.b29-superfortress.com/b29-superfortress-production-assembly-
>>plants.htm
>>
>>"By mid-January 1944, 97 B-29s had been built by Wichita, but
>>unfortunately only 16 of these were flyable. Only the very early
>>Wichita-built models were delivered in olive drab and grey camouflage
>>paint, with the remainder being delivered unpainted.
>>
>>"During March and April 1944, the intensive effort to get the first
>>B-29s ready for overseas service became known as the "Battle of
>>Kansas." All the B-29s used in the first raid on Japan on the steel
>>center at Yawata, June 15, 1944, were built at Wichita.
>>
>>"At the end of the war Boeing-Wichita was producing 4.2
>>Superfortresses per working day for an average of 100 a month, which
>>was the military's schedule. The plant had also reduced the number of
>>manhours to produce a single B-29, from157,000 (the average required
>>for the first 100 bombers), to less than 20,000.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks, I did find that article, but it doesn't technically say how
> long it takes to assemble one aircraft from start to finish.
>
Would be hard to calculate, as there were several plants putting them out
and many assemblies were made in other plants and companies then shipped
to the assembly plants, Cessna produced tails, bomb bays were produced
at other locations and shipped. none of the books on the superfort
give the information you seek. as far as the ones I have anyway..
even when they left the plants, almost all went to mod centers to be
updated, to new standards, that could not be done on the assembly floors,
so that they were not slowed by the changes..
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