Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Was the B29-Superfortress a Failure?" video.

  1. It was known to the Americans as well. the ceiling and cruise altitudes of the b-17 and b-29 are the same. The USAAF had been routinely flying at jet stream height in the 1930's.
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  2. @bertrandviolette9008 He wrote, of course, mainly in Japanese, but Esperanto was a hobby of his. Writing a scientific article in Esperanto would have been pointless - only a few thousand speakers in the world and few if any interested in meteorology. Esperanto was promoted by a minor English religious sect known as Bahai, an offshoot of Islam. I know of only one academic journal that tried publishing a section in Esperanto but gave up after a couple of years as no one wanted it. Oishi was hardly ground breaking. Jet streams and their importance to weather and the dispertion of volcanic dust had been studied in the USA since the 1800's. Elias Loomis is usually credited as the discoverer.
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  3. i had to laugh when curious Droid said the B-29 even flew higher that the Lancaster. Of course it did - the Lanc was a relatively unsophisticated aeroplane that had a ceiling of only 6500 metres, and was really only effective at lower altitudes. Droid repeats some modern urban myths - eg stating that prior to the B-29 flights over Japan, the jet stream was unknown. Clearly that was not the case, as the jet stream height and the B-29 cruise altitude was no different to many other military planes (eg B-17) that had been flying years before. Fuel injection came very late in the B-29 production run, so was in no way essential for good performance.
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