Boeing WB-29 44-69770 United States Air Force reducing the aircraft's visual signature

reducing the aircraft's visual signature during operations

assigned to the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron (TASS)

Operation Anstalt Wigmo was a CIA-directed covert air operation launched in support of the Congolese central government during the chaotic Congo Crisis of the mid-1960s

support helicopters like BuNo 148309 were the unsung backbone of HMX-1's operations

Boeing WB-29 44-69770 United States Air Force reducing the aircraft's visual signatureThese are 1 72 scale decals for Boeing WB 29 44 69770 "Typhoon Goon II", assigned to the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, United States Air Force. The WB 29 was a weather reconnaissance conversion of the B 29 Superfortress, stripped of its offensive armament and fitted with meteorological instruments to fly into and around severe weather systems. The crews of the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron known informally as the "Typhoon Goons" flew