BOEING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS FIRST FLIGHT
Seattle, Washington State • September 21, 1942 On this date Boeing’s largest-to-date, 4‑engine heavy bomber lifted off on its maiden flight from its namesake’s airfield in Seattle, Washington. Three years earlier the forerunner of the U.S. Army Air Forces had expressed its interest in a replacement bomber for the company’s first 4‑engine heavy bomber, the…