Enola Gay is a specially modified aircraft
There was once a B-29 Super Fortress bomber The whole American knows it. The B-29 is actually B-29-45-MO, Army Air Force Serial No. 44-86292, not built by Boeing, but by Glenn L. Martin Company at its Bellevue, Nebraska factory. Absolutely not unique, but certainly rare, 44-86292 is the top 15 Silver board B-29. After being specially modified to do unimaginable but necessary work, this famous B-29 is named Enola Gay – B-29 dropped the first one Atomic bomb.
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Silver board The B-29 was modified to enable them to carry the atomic bomb of the day. These special revisions Super Ford Includes pneumatically operated Bomb Bay Gate, dual redundant British bomb attachments and release system, improved Wright R-3350-41 Double-stranded loop The turbocharged radial engine has a revised fuel injection and cooling system that rotates reversible propellers and removes the dorsal and ventral remote gun turrets. Added weapon crew positions in the cockpit area.
Select Tibbet in person
Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. personally selected 44-86292, while the plane was still assembled at the Martin factory on May 9, 1945.Th Compound group, later named Bomber Enola Gay After his mother.
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Less than two weeks later, 44-86292 is about to head to Guam in the Mariana Islands. There, the plane modified the Bomb Bay and then flew to Tinian's North Field on July 6, 1945. From there, the bomber flew eight practice/training flights, usually by other aircraft commander Robert A. Lewis.
Lewis also performed two more missions in late July, throwing 10,000-pound pumpkin bombs onto industrial targets – first Kobe and then in Nagoya. The tail identification mark on 44-86292 is the mark of the squadron that maintains secrets. On July 31, 1945, 44-86292 flew a rehearsal flight to the atomic bomb mission.
The iconic name of the quarrel
During the preparations for the atomic mission on August 5, Tibbets was officially named 44-86292 Enola Gay. Allan L. Karl drew a name on the plane. This did not allow Lewis to solicit his neglected aircraft commander. Lewis flew the mission with Tibbets as the co-pilot. The B-29 must be lifted with a special drilling rig so that the atomic bomb can be loaded into its front bomb bay. B-29 left the North Field of the other two companies Silver board B-29: Great artistcarry instruments and other B-29s to take pictures.
Publish and return
Three B-29s head to Iwo Jima, where they would merge to set up courses for Japan. The three bombers arrived at Hiroshima with clear skies and infinite visibility (CAVU) at an altitude of 32,333 feet. Weapons are not armed in the mission and the security devices are removed.
The Little Boy bomb was released at 0815 local time and fell 43 seconds from 31,600 feet. Enola Gay climbed 11.5 miles on the shock wave in the explosion. After 12 hours and 13 minutes in the air, the plane returned to North Field safely at 1458 local time. Tibbets received outstanding service crossover after returning Enola Gay.
Enola Gay also flew the second mission
Enola Gay Flying by another crew member as a weather reconnaissance ship, on the Nagasaki mission on August 9Th. After that, the bomber did not perform another wartime mission. 509Th and Enola Gay From November 1945 to May 1946, it flew to Roswell AAF in the United States and operated there, when the plane flew west to another Pacific destination – this time Kwajalein headed to Crossroads Operation. 44-86292 Not selected to drive a mission to place an atomic bomb on a Bikini Atoll.
Later in 1946, it was removed from the USAAF inventory and transferred to the Smithsonian Agency. The famous bomber was then transported from one air base to another until 1961 Enola Gay It was disassembled and shipped to the Smithsonian agency storage facility in Seatland, Maryland.
Controversy about history
Enola Gay In the 1980s, veterans groups were caught in controversy when they expressed interest in displaying the historic plane in Washington. With that comes politics, delaying the display of bombers until the fuselage is displayed only at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), in recognition of the 50Th The inevitable controversy of the anniversary of the preacher of Hiroshima. The aircraft has been restored, fully assembled, and has been on display at the Steven Udval Haz Center at NASM since 2003.
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