"miket6065" wrote:

Gord, but I was told that the FEs were in the wings, not in the cockpit.
This wasn't like the B29 where the FE was behind the pilots and within near
reaching distance.

Yes, I just noticed that Mike...and the B-29 F/E was quite a
distance behind the pilots actually (not to mention was facing
backwards!...musta been bad during problems keeping engine
numbers straight!) Engines are always numbered from left to right
(1,2,3,4 while facing in the direction of travel)

The Argus engineer's station was much closer to the pilots than
the B-29 and was facing front too (about 3-4 feet behind the
copilot)
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-Gord.
(use gordon in email)