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Female Fighter Pilot, 93, Takes Ride of a Lifetime

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (March 10) -- It's been 66 years since Violet Cowden flew fighter airplanes during World War II, but when she took to the skies recently off the coast of Southern California, it was like she was home. "It's like I never left," said Cowden, 93, who flew a light fighter plane for an hour,...

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The B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing that was flown primarily by the United States in late-World War II and through the Korean War.

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