Stratovision
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Stratovision was an airborne television transmission relay system using aircraft flying at high altitudes. In 1945, the Glenn L. Martin Company and Westinghouse Electric Corporation originally propose
Westinghouse and Glenn L. Martin employees pose with B-29 Superfortress used in Stratovision tests. In rear row from left are Frank Gordon Mullins and C.E. Nobles, head of Stratovision for Westinghouse.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a retired American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the USAAF and USAF during World War II and the Korean War. Nam
Stratovision
…Virginia, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachusetts. The second phase of testing was undertaken by these companies using a stripped-down B-29 Superfortress flying at 30,000 feet (9,100 m). The plane was equipped to receive a relay transmission from WMAR-TV in Baltimore, which was then relayed over a 5 kW…
Boeing B-29-70-BW Superfortress 469972 Doc – one of only two surviving airworthy models
YB-29 Superfortresses in flight
The length of the 141-foot (43 m) wing span of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress based at Davis-Monthan Field is vividly illustrated here with the cloud-topped Santa Catalina Mountains as a contrasting background.
Boeing assembly line at Wichita, Kansas (1944)