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It was A B-29. Nova did a program about it - it was very sad. The Superfort made an emergency landing after running low on fuel in a snow storm while on a "monitoring" mission. The crew was picked up, but since the B-29 was close to being retired, they just left it there. That was in 1947 or 1949, I believe. An explorer noted in his diary finding the plane while flying. He noted seeing a plane "similar" to a B-29 sitting on the ground intact. A hot-shot ex- test pilot named Darryl Greenamyer (sp?) organized an effort to bring the plane home. The plan was to repair it to the point where it could be flown to Thule AFB, and then shipped home to the US. The crew worked long and hard hours, fighting the short sping/summer period to get the plane operational. The hard work was partly responsible for one of the crew dying of pnemonia. When the plane was finally airworthy, Darryl took it for a taxi test around the site, and to get it lined up on the makeshift runway. During this taxi, he hit a large "bump", and an auxiliary fuel tank gravity feeding the APU (auxiliary power unit - it's pump failed, so they needed to gravity feed fuel to it) fell and dumped AVGAS on the APU. The tail section of the plane caught fire and nobody could get to a fire extinguisher in time. The plane burned to the ground on the ice of a frozen lake. Now the little that remains is at the bottom of the lake. I'd love to meet Darryl one day. I'd like to shake his hand for organizing the effort to get the plane in the air (it almost flew), and then punch him in the face for being careless and destroying one of the few -29's left that could be flyable. Did anyone here realize that the B-29 was the first aircraft to have a fire-control analog computer? This computer would take the gunners inputs from the sights and compensate for several factors and then aim whatever series of guns (up to four turrets) were assigned to him. As one B-29 pilot said, "The plane was real Buck Rogers back then". Neat stuff.... - Matt Matthew Sell Programmer On Time Support, Inc. www.ontimesupport.com (281) 296-6066 Join the Metrology Software discussion group METLIST! http://www.ontimesupport.com/subscribe_t&c.htmlhtml. "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler Many thanks for this tagline to a fellow RGVAC'er...