Photo Gallery: Aviation buffs tour B-29 Superfortress Fifi at Burbank airport
Aviation enthusiasts watch a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” as it turns its engines while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts watch reenactors Ben Miller, left, and Scott Steele, right, put on B-29 pilot and navigator gear with a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” parked behind them at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
B-29 Superfortress “Fifi” pilot Carl H. Riese walks away from the plane during the first engine test while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts look around a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts pose for a photo in front of a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. From left to right are Scott Andrews of Lake Forest, reenactor Scott Steele, 58 of Torrance (wearing a WWII B-29 pilot flight gear), Shaun Andrews, 32 of Lake Forest holding 7-mo. old Tate Andrews and reenactor Ben Miller, 55 of Pomona, wearing a WWII B-29 flight navigator uniform. Scott Andrews’ father (and Shaun’s grandfather and Tate’s great-grandfather) was a B-29 pilot held as a WWII POW in Japan. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Rear facing guns are seen in the foreground as aviation enthusiasts wait to board a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” for a cockpit tour while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts watch pilot M.R. Martin clean the outside of the engines of a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” as it turns its engines while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiast and reenactor Ben Miller of Pomona holds a replica B-29 manual while waiting for a cockpit tour of a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts tour the outside of a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts take photos and video of a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” as it turns its engines while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts Samantha Gill, 13 and her father Mike Gill, of Chino Hills, pose for a photo in front of a British Spit Fire WWII plane while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests on a B-29 Superfortress bomber were done, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Dozens of aviation enthusiasts line up to see the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
World War II reenactors Scott Steele, of Torrance, left,and Ben Miller, of Pomona, right, gear up in front of a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Steele wears B-29 pilot flight gear and Miller wears B-29 navigator gear. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Aviation enthusiasts watch a B-29 Superfortress named “Fifi” as it turns its engines while parked at the Burbank Airport on Saturday, March 23, 2013. After two engine tests, it was determined that a mechanical malfunction would keep the World War II-era bomber grounded for the day. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)