Crashed B-29

The Crashed B-29 was a Boeing B-29 Superfortress that crashed in 1949, 128 years before the Great War and is now at the bottom of Lake Mead, right next to the Lake Mead Cave.

During the quest Volare!, it is requested of you to float the bomber up to the surface of the lake, using two ballasts given to you by Loyal, which must be placed between the engines under each wing. After you float it up to the surface Loyal sends robots to disassemble it and bring it back to Nellis Hangars. Once back in the hanger the plane can be seen being worked on by Boomers.

Layout
A crashed B-29 airplane is lying at the bottom of Lake Mead, close to Lake Mead Cave and Callville Bay. Due to it's good condition it's most likely that the plane didn't crash, but performed a sucsessfull landing. Because if ir had crashed, it would be ripped apart.

Behind the scenes
The crashed B-29 references an actual B-29 that crashed into Lake Mead in July 1948, although the B-29 in question had been modified for atmospheric research, and thus it was not an actual bomber aircraft. 1948 B-29 Lake Mead crash

The game's depiction is (albeit slightly) inaccurate. The real Lake Mead B-29 was, for many years, sitting at a depth of around 240 feet. Though Lake Mead's water level has dropped nearly 100 feet since then, leaving the plane at a modest 140 feet which, however, is still out of most recreational diver's reach, let alone a free-diver. Also the real B-29 is resting at a nose-down angle with a large break forward of it's empennage and is also missing all but it's most outboard port engine, the rest having been ripped off while it skipped along the surface of the lake before crashing.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.