Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: View of south hangar, together with B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”, a glance of a Air France Concorde, as well as many others
Image by Chris Devers
Quoting Smithsonian National Air as well as Space Museum | Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay":
Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress was a many worldly propeller-driven bomber of World War II as well as a initial bomber to residence a organisation in pressurized compartments. Although written to quarrel in a European theater, a B-29 found a niche upon a alternative side of a globe. In a Pacific, B-29s delivered a accumulation of aerial weapons: required bombs, agitator bombs, mines, as well as dual chief weapons.
On Aug 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO forsaken a initial atomic arms used in fight upon Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on arrangement during a U.S. Air Force Museum nearby Dayton, Ohio) forsaken a second atomic explosve upon Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as a allege continue reconnoitering aircraft which day. A third B-29, The Great Artiste, flew as an regard aircraft upon both missions.
Transferred from a United States Air Force.
Manufacturer:
Boeing Aircraft Co.
Martin Co., Omaha, Nebr.
Date:
1945
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 900 x 3020cm, 32580kg, 4300cm (29ft 6 5/16in. x 99ft 1in., 71825.9lb., 141ft 15/16in.)
Materials:
Polished altogether aluminum finish
Physical Description:
Four-engine complicated bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage as well as high-aspect comparative measure wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, customary late-World War II Army Air Forces escutcheon upon wings as well as abaft fuselage as well as sequence series upon straight fin; 509th Composite Group markings embellished in black; "Enola Gay" in black, retard letters upon reduce left nose.
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