• What’s up, Doc: B-29 to make hometown appearance at 2018 Air Show

    MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan.— In 2016, the B-29 Superfortress known as Doc took to the skies for the first time in 60 years from McConnell’s runway. This year, it will be showing off at the base in a different way.Doc is scheduled to be one of many attractions at the Frontiers in Flight Open House

  • B-29 ‘Doc’ takes to the skies from McConnell

    One-by-one, the four propeller engines start up. Thump, thump, thump. Clouds of snow white smoke blow out of the vents on each engine. Thump, thump, thump. The propellers spin; becoming a blur of motion. Thump, thump, thump. The B-29 Superfortress, also known as Doc, speeds down McConnell’s runway.