At 12:26 PM on the 18th day of February 1943, the fortunes of the B-29program disastrously hit rock bottom. At that instant, Boeing research testpilot Eddie Allen, his crew and the heavily instrumented #2 XB-29 were destroyedin a crash. That story is told in "Eddie Allen and the B-29."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/the-xb-29-from-chaos-to-victory-an-excerpt-from-the-global-twentieth-by-bob-robbins