When they tell the story of World War II, there are too many legendary people, new technologies, and secret projects to keep track of. Yet in the early days of the war — when things really weren’t going well for the US and its allies, the two biggest projects began taking shape virtually in secret. America was building the atomic bomb, and the revolutionary plane that would deliver that bomb — the B-29. Nearly four thousand B-29’s were built — but after the war, with jet engines being developed, many of the B-29 were chopped up or used for target practice. Two have survived and can still fly. This is the story of a B-29 named “Doc” — saved from the Mojave desert boneyard where it was left to die. It took hundreds of volunteers to save the plane, including folks in Inyo County who had jonly days to drag it from the boneyard — through 30 miles of desert — all to start the process of getting it to fly again. Once in Kansas — where it was built in 1945 by Boeing, hundreds of volunteers chipped in for 16 years.

Perhaps the best part of the story is it all began with one man — Tony Mazzolini. The Ohio veteran of the Korean War had worked for Continental Airlines and just had a thing for the old vintage planes from World War Two. He found Doc in the boneyard… wheeled and dealed with the Navy that ran the boneyard, and eventually got the plane. His vision and perseverance has created a flying museum that takes the B-29 Doc story of World War Two all over America.