Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: View of south hangar, including B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" par Chris Devers
Quoting <a href="http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19500100000" rel="nofollow">Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"</a>:
Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its niche on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29s delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, and two nuclear weapons.
On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. A third B-29, The Great Artiste, flew as an observation aircraft on both missions.
<em>Transferred from the United States Air Force.</em>
<strong>Manufacturer:</strong>
<a href="http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/cons.cfm?id=1164" rel="nofollow">Boeing Aircraft Co.</a>
<a href="http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/cons.cfm?id=15148" rel="nofollow">Martin Co., Omaha, Nebr.</a>
<strong>Date:</strong>
1945
<strong>Country of Origin:</strong>
United States of America
<strong>Dimensions:</strong>
Overall: 900 x 3020cm, 32580kg, 4300cm (29ft 6 5/16in. x 99ft 1in., 71825.9lb., 141ft 15/16in.)
<strong>Materials:</strong>
Polished overall aluminum finish
<strong>Physical Description:</strong>
Four-engine heavy bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage and high-aspect ratio wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forces insignia on wings and aft fuselage and serial number on vertical fin; 509th Composite Group markings painted in black; "Enola Gay" in black, block letters on lower left nose.
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