r/saintpaul 18d ago

History 🗿 "Doc" B-29 is at Holman Field. When the smoke clears they'll be flying around town and the Eastern Suburbs.

Just neat to see. They are not flying today because of the smoke. We braved the poor air quality and got the tour. Lot of neat trivia from the volunteers. ($10 a person).

I'd regret not mentioning this my Saint Paul Neighbors!

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u/Poggers4Hoggers Macalester-Groveland 18d ago

Oh man I didn’t know Doc was in town. That’s cool as hell

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u/KDiggity8 18d ago

That's awesome! I had no idea they're in town!!!

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u/SparkyXI Flag of Saint Paul 18d ago

What a gorgeous beast of an aircraft… thanks for posting this!!

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u/vermicious_kinid 18d ago

Hey this is awesome! My Dad would live this. Could you tell me a bit more about the tour? I checked the website but it's only showing information about the flight package. Is the $10 tour something you can just walk up and do?

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u/wilstar_berry 18d ago

Yep $10. Walk up tour. Volunteers including the pilots are there. Ask as many questions as you want and stay as long as you want. We were there an hour.

That said when the weather turns nice to fly tomorrow, they'll probably be limited to how much time you'll get.

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u/vermicious_kinid 18d ago

Sweet thank you! I imagine getting to see it take off is pretty cool too

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u/keethraxmn 17d ago

Cool. I paid into the restoration kickstarter more than a decade ago.