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    Big Stink – later renamed Dave's Dream – was a United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29-40-MO Superfortress bomber (Victor number 90) that participated...
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  • Big Stink may refer to: Big Stink (aircraft), a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber (Victor number 90) that participated in the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki...
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    aircraft commander. The crew regularly assigned to this airplane in turn flew on the Nagasaki mission on August 9, 1945, in another B-29; Big Stink,...
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    dropped. Groves 1962, p. 346. Rhodes 1986, pp. 705–711. † Big Stink was a backup aircraft for the Hiroshima bombing; it was used for strike observation...
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    Bockscar (category Individual aircraft of World War II)
    aircraft commander. The Great Artiste was designated as an observation and instrumentation support plane for the second mission, while The Big Stink –...
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    found The Great Artiste, but not The Big Stink. Climbing to 30,000 feet, the assigned rendezvous altitude, both aircraft slowly circled Yakushima Island....
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    called the second aircraft that Curtis built, "Little Stinker". The prototype S-2, which was the first two-seat Pitts, was "Big Stinker", the prototype...
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    targets clear. When Sweeney's aircraft arrived at the assembly point for his flight off the coast of Japan, Big Stink failed to make the rendezvous....
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    greatest effect was to force the British to disperse the production of aircraft and spare parts. British wartime studies concluded that most cities took...
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    the Historical Aircraft Exchange Program, in which the U.S. Forest Service would acquire retired U.S. Air Force C-130A transport aircraft and U.S. Navy...
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