What do “Star Wars” and a World War II-era bomber have in common? The greenhouse, that glass enclosure at the nose of the plane.
Jim Grady and his 11-year-old grandson Evan Hufford, both of Munster, walk around a B-29 bomber during the Air Power History Tour at the Porter County Regional Airport on Wednesday.
Wilson sat in Fifi’s forward crew compartment Wednesday morning explaining the different crew positions – bombardier, pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, radio operator, navigator – to the family that had just climbed up. Grandfather Jim Grady, of Munster, and his daughter Lizzy Hufford and her four boys, ranging in age from 3 to 11, and also from Munster, listened and asked questions.
His grandson, 11-year-old Evan Hufford, learned something too. “I just came out with him. It’s cool. I like planes. They’re fun. I was surprised to see the guns. Usually, they’re glass,” he said of the gun turrets. “So she never had time to go overseas and see combat before the war ended, but she was used to train crews that went overseas and served in Korea in other B-29s,” explained Todd Erskine, tour leader/scanner for Commemorative Air Force.
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