FIRST SUPER FORTRESS COST U.S. 3.392,396 DOLLARS
The cost of building the first B-29 Super-Fortress was 3.392.396 dollars. The original contract was for 1,804,840 dollars, but that was reduced to 1.674 880 dollars alter the Government assumed certain flight risks. Tests to alter the tail cost 95.241 dollars: for enlarging the bomb bay 72.500 dollars, and for new propeller tests 15.600 dollars.
Before the first Super-Fortress could be built on the production line it was subjected to a final series of static tests in the aircraft laboratory of the Air Technical Service Command at a cost of 861.826 dollars.— (Davton, Ohio, “Herald.”)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 4
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102FIRST SUPER FORTRESS COST U.S. 3.392,396 DOLLARS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 4
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