The airliner pilot who gets to fly World War Two's biggest bomber

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3. The video linked in the article is good too.

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There is a wartime instructional film which shows the flight-check routine for a B-29 crew; this is very much a truncated version, and the film lasts more nearly 40 minutes. "I would usually plan 45 minutes in between, you know, butts in the seat, everybody strapped in, intercom on, ready to talk between then and when I can take off," says Haskin. The B-29's cockpit and flight engineer's station certainly looks like something from a different age, banks of switches and levers of bewildering complexity.