Great to see! Old school flying skills, no computer assistance, and yeah, huge respect to the men who flew missions in planes like this.

Interesting trivia for those who are not aware: one of the very few active pilots who is certified to fly Fifi is Jeff Skiles, the first officer of USAIR 1549 (Miracle on the Hudson).

My Dad was a flight engineer on these planes known as Washington’s in the U.K. and delivered many back to the USA in the 50s and flew Decca trials for quite a few years. Lovely to see this

I love the sounds of these classic aircraft. The heavy rumble of the 4 engines.

Can't believe the pilot doesn't have the throttle controls, that's got to be a heck of an experience, and incredible coordination with the flight engineer behind him.

I've always wanted to see a video of the B29 in flight from inside the cabin. Thank you so much! That was the closest you can get without being there. Great upload, thanks again.

I had the pleasure of seeing Fifi when it flew into Richmond Va as part of the Confederate Air Force back in the mid 90's. The captain invited me to sit in his seat and took my picture. Such an awesome experience to climb through that machine. What an amazing step in aviation it was.

Это очень интересно! Спасибо за видео! Особенно если учесть, что в СССР сделали скрупулёзную копию B-29 - самолёт Ту-4, получается, я здесь увидел, как выглядит американский самолёт, и каким был советский. Я увидел его величину - он был большой, увидел знаменитый лаз в хвостовой отсек, увидел рабочие места экипажа и его работу, увидел, как нелепо выглядят гражданские в этой боевой машине. Вызывает уважение, что такой заслуженный самолёт до сих пор летает. Здоровья и мирного неба нам всем! 👍☺

Hey gentleman and lady, don’t pinch yourselves…What a privilege and blessing 👊🏼🙏🏼🌻👍 for all of you! Thanks for sharing

My dad flew B29. His position was the flight engineer. His position was the most important. If he wasn't there the pilot couldn't of keep the bird in the air. RIP DAD💕

Millennium Falcon!! Was half expecting to see Chewy smack the console with a wrench to bring the hyper-drive online!😁

I have existed on the good planet earth for over 61 years……but this is the first time I have seen such clean high resolution footage from the flight deck of a Boeing 29 Flying Fortress. Visually astounding!! Thank you!!!!

This reminds me of when I started driving my 35 ft Class C motor home. One thing you never want to do is turn around and look back down the hall while you're driving. Seeing all that behind you and realizing that you're navigating this huge beast on the highway will blow your mind!

What I wouldn't give to be a part of that crew! Many props to the flight engineer intensely monitoring those engines. Thanks to all of them for keeping that old bird flying.

It’s outstanding that they keep her flying. Nice work guys.

Back in them days, boys had to have the balls of giants and guts made out of kryptonite! Mad respect for the men and women that built, flown or maintained one of these Giants!! 💪👊💪👊💪🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

This cockpit really looks so lovely and fantastic; the pilots and the rest of the squad look like the guy next door, the milkman, the cab driver... you name it !

The people who flew aboard these types of aircraft during and after the war had courage to the highest degree and deserve to be respected!

Man oh man! The view of the cockpit is just like the Millennium Falcon. I guess we now know where they got that idea from. Just imagine what it must have been like to fly in a formation of a 100 of these over Japan or Germany.

B29 overexposed in 1948 crashed on a routine flight to Burton wood Manchester on the moors of Bleaklow with the loss of thirteen lives , much of its wreckage can still be seen there to this day , We will Remember Them Thank you for keeping FiFi flying as a lasting memorial to the Brave men who crewed the B29

This was a sight to behold seeing this beast take off and fly a few yrs ago in Latrobe. I'll never forget it.

FIFI was at the Mercer County Airport near Trenton, New Jersey, back in late-June of 2019. I was at the western end of the runway when she took-off for Youngstown, Ohio, that Sunday. Watching and hearing FIFI pass overhead is a real thrill.

Спасибо американским парням за нашу общую Победу над фашизмом! Благодарим их за мужество и отвагу!

My father was a USAAF B-29 navigator 1944-1945. He died in 2016 age 94. He saved and I have his original flight jacket with squadron insignia. My son and I visited (did not fly on) FIFI at Boire Field in Nashua NH in 2018. My family are Friends Of Doc.

Обожаю старые самолёты и вертолёты. Видно инженерную мысль, развитие. Современные как смартфоны - одинаковые.

Spectacular. Much more spacious than I would have imagined.

Wow amazing aircraft ! I had no idea the flight engineer had the throttles etc ! Much respect to those guys

My Father was the flight engineer on one of those. . . .so awesome to see where he sat.

I greatly appreciate your capturing this and making it available to us!! I do, however, feel a bit sorry for the gentleman, with the best seat in the house!, who is missing the, true, experience completely by choosing to live the moment through the lens finder of a GoPro camera. Working the 'Backline', at major stadium shows, you can't imagine the astonishing amount of ticket holders, with premium seats ( $2200- $8200), who watch the show entirely through the camera feature on their cell phones which, by the way, is technically illegal. In my opinion, they are removing themselves from the moment and, although they have captured the event, they have missed an episode in time they will, most likely, never experience again. My philosophy, Live The Moment!

Спасибо за видео. Такое ощущение что я в музее побывал. Всем здоровья.

I just toured this very aircraft over the weekend. 5-27-23 at Tri-Cities Airport. It was awesome

I was lucky enough to see her fly a few years ago. Amazing!!!

That's authentic Millennium Falcon. Amazing view! Thanks for sharing.

This is the best view I've ever seen of the Flight Engineer station! Thank you so much! I'm a KC-10A Flight Engineer, and I'm going to miss "sitting the panel".

At 23 years old my father pilot the B-29 off of Saipan, this is a very moving video for me, thank you for sharing it.

It's like a steampunk spaceship lol. Seriously though, I've never seen the cockpit of a B29, let alone during flight. Thanks for posting this!

Everything looks so complicated and what we must remember most of the airman back then where only in the early 20s true legend's 🙏

Wow - like bein' in a dream. Blessings, Fifi and crew!

Amazing skill there !! back when our nation was on top of our game ! Looks like fun !!

i used to live in a tiny town in south texas called Harlingen, and I used to see Fifi a lot when i was a kid. it was the plane that got me interested in flying and aircraft. i used to see it and be amazed at her size and power. Fun as hell boy. Way to go Fifi!

Looked like inside the STARWARS Millennium Falcon! Thank You So Much for Sharing!

It is very interesting! Thank you for the video! Especially if you consider that in the USSR they made a scrupulous copy of the B-29 - the Tu-4 plane, it turns out that I saw here what an American plane looks like, and what a Soviet one was. I saw its size - it was large, I saw the famous manhole in the tail compartment, I saw the crew's workplaces and their work, I saw how ridiculous civilians look in this combat vehicle. It is a matter of respect that such a well-deserved plane still flies. Health and a peaceful sky to all of us! 👍☺

Корабль классный, рабочее месть бортинженера поразило. Как не крути, B-29 настоящий Корабль.The ship is cool, the flight engineer's work place amazed.

High tech and a tuff bird for her time. I salute that generation and others before me ,this generation and those to come. From this Vet, Thank you for your service

I’m from Wichita which is home to the B29-Doc. I see Doc overhead on occasion, you can definitely tell by the deep thunderous rumble of those massive engines that something special is about pass overhead.

What a machine. America was a great country then. The engineering that went into building these great planes was incredible.

Took a tour a few years ago, was impressed with what the tailgunner had to endure. Only way to get from tail to cockpit was through a narrow tube, lonely back there

25 years ago I met an American pilot who flew 50 daylight sorties over Germany. His wife was by his side and he told us all wonderful and sad story. This was his after dinner speech on his golden wedding anniversy Back in 1944 he took leave for a day to be with his girlfriend(and future wife) and next day when he got back to base he discovered that his B-29 had been hit by flak and all his buddies had been killed in action over the skies of Germany. Someone else was filling in for him during his absence. He settled down in Australia after the war and had a wonderful life but he used to remember his friends every day who had not been so fortunate and had perished as their aircraft went down in flames.

What a wonderful machine greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

wow, what an experience that must be

Damn! These guy are so fortunate to be able to fly this awesome piece of history. It has to be very special indeed.

Possibly the most impressive thing I've ever witnessed especially good camera work

Amazing video! I consider myself a lucky guy, I've made two flights in a row in the Aluminum Overcast B-17, at Columbus-Ohio, in 2014. Very nice to see now how its like to fly in a B-29!

NICE, “could have, should have” back in the “ Confederate AirForce” days! Thanks for the video!!🇺🇸🇺🇸

Nice to see history flying. Not to many of the men or the warbirds left.

What a beautiful view of B-29 cockpit.

Cracking! So roomy & a deathly hush. The 'stick' is such a primitive thing. The engineer deals with all the dials & the Skip just plays with the stick thing. Simple.

So beautiful. What an incredible flight deck!

BOMBS AWAY! AMAzing ride,,,THANKS FELLAS!

What an honor it must be to be selected as a pilot for this incredible piece of history! Fantastic restoration. While interesting, the photographer spent too much time on the flight engineer.

Sir. We've just had a message on the CRM113 ! Tranlsates to Wing Attack Plan R. Is that you, Goldie? How many times have I told you, no horsin' around on the airplane.

I'm impressed by the skill of the air crew flying this great old War bird. I was thinking while I was watching this about the air crews that went up day after day to bomb Japan or Germany. Truly the Greatest Generation.

Amazing just amazing. I was blown away by the scary view, but totally impressed with the crews flying skills.

the sound the engines make at take off is awesome

Ild friend of mine was the Radio operator on B29 Incendiary Blonde stationed on Tinian Island. Great guy. Cool video

In 2002 or 2003, I believe, Fifi was in Bowling Green, KY, for the weekend. I had the privilege to climb up into the cockpit and hear a WW2 B29 crewman speak of his experiences flying out of Saipan and over Japan. He and his crew were among the last to be sent to the Pacific and fly actual bombing missions. By this late stage of the war, the new recruits were mostly 18 year olds straight out of high-school who had turned 19 by the time they reached Saipan. If I remember correctly, his crew had 10 men age 19 and one man age 26. The 26 year old was immediately nicknamed Grandad by the rest of the crew. The old gentleman said words to the effect, "Can you imagine sending out the biggest bomber in the world on a bombing mission, 2900 miles round trip, with a crew of 19 year old boys?" He just boggled my mind.

Nice video! The B-29 aka DOC files over my place all the time. I've got some really good pictures of Doc flying. I live 1 mile away from Doc's Hanger, Education and Visiting Center here in Wichita, Kansas. There's only two airworthiness B-29's in the world, FiFi and Doc.

Got to fly in a KC-97 while in the Air Force in the 60s and the cockpit layout was very similar to this. FIFI is based Ft. Worth about five miles from our house and flies over a couple of times a month.

The conversation would have been awesome to hear between these guys

I flew in Navy P2V's in the 70's out of Okinawa, I loved the nose seat.

Beautiful aircraft. It seems so strange to see the pilots sitting so far back.

I've never been inside a B-29 but I have sat in the cockpits of B-17's and B-24s....the interior of this aircraft is like a two bedroom condo compared to those two aircraft. The amount of space really surprised me, most WWII aircraft are very cramped. The B-29 really did ring in a new era! It's strange though to watch a PIC flying an aircraft without manipulating or even having access to the throttles, pitch controls etc.

Cockpit like the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars, they should make commercial airlines nowadays with this view. :-) Great Video :-)

Lovely descending sound on the landing rollout. Thanks for sharing.

Gotta love it when the planes going one way and the tiller is pointed the opposite way.

I worked at a house and there were B29 pics all over the house, the owner I became friends with her husband was on crew with the Enola Gay, I sat for a while and was beyond fascinated with great stories!

Absolutely brilliant!! Thanks for sharing

WW2 Legend ❤ Thanks so much for sharing this 👍🇺🇸

The landing was so smooth I didn’t feel or hear a thing. 👍

Waaawwwww l ambiance qui doit y avoir à l intérieur de ce cockpit doit être magique !!! Incroyable voyage dans le temps

Great cockpit footage, I am amazed just how big the B29's cockpit is.

What a beautiful piece of history.

With FiFi and Doc being the only two remaining flight worthy B-29's left is truly awesome and yet sad at the same time and I'd sure love to see a B-50 return to flight condition to show the lineage of the B-29 line.

Incredible ! It’s amazing we made that in the 40s

Such a great video! Great Dads flying an iconic bird!) Love it!) Thanks!

The cocpit looks like what you see on the YT freighter.

I've actually been on board that same aircraft but didn't get to fly in her. It was on display in manassas Virginia at the airport there when I got climb up into the bomber "FiFi" and sat in the left hand seat during the tour I got th take of the B-29 Superfortess "FiFi"

amazing skills to fly a Machine like this !!!! Thanks for sharing

Боже как это круто)что восстановили такой старый самолет)правда он как и Ту -4 очень неуклюжий)но очень классный! Спасибо за видео

Stepped back in time watching

Thank you for posting this perspective!

That’s amazing!!! One of me all time favorite bomber of all times. Hardcore pilots and crew he flew them back in the day Thank you armed forces

This is when America was America with it industrial might and engineering talent. Most things in this plane was cutting edge technology that had to be designed and produced from scratch. And all made here in USA. If it was made today, it would either fall out of skies like 787max or it would have the label “designed in USA, but made in China”.

Despite having 1k likes you still get 1mill views keep the good work up

Magic B-29. I love this plane.

extremely powerful influential aviation figures of all time in history

More room here than in the Millennium Falcon! Which, by the way, was based on the B-29 (at least the part where Hans and Chewy fly it from)

I am Japanese. My grandmother died in a bomb dropped by this bomber. May b29 fly in the peaceful sky forever.

Incredible and awesome 👍👍

Millennium Falcon Cockpit! Now I see where thy came from . Super cool