Lake Mead - B-29 Crash

B-29 Crash

At the bottom of the lake is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress that crashed in 1948 while testing a prototype missile guidance system known as "suntracker".

The wreckage of at least two smaller airplanes is also within Lake Mead.

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