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Paul Tibbets and the Enola Gay Led mission that dropped first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. By Stephen Sherman, Nov. 2002.Updated June 29, 2011. T he B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, rumbled down the the runway at Tinian, the forward American airbase in the Marianas, as close as the giant Boeing bombers could get to Japan’s …
Left front fuselage view of the B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay” at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington, D.C.
Silverplate was the code reference for the United States Army Air Forces’ participation in the Manhattan Project during World War II.Originally the name for the aircraft modification project which enabled a B-29 Superfortress bomber to drop an atomic weapon, “Silverplate” eventually came to identify the training and operational aspects of the …
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They’ve got a list going over at The Atlantic: What Was the Most Significant Airplane Flight in History? Flight of the Enola Gay, that’s a heavy one. And from my friend Christine Negroni: “In 1914, Abram Pheil became the very first passenger on the very first passenger flight, a 23-minute trip
The Enola Gay ( / ɪ ˈ n oʊ l ə ˈ ɡ eɪ /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line.On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb.The bomb, code …
Enola Gay è il bombardiere B-29 Superfortress che il 6 agosto 1945, poco prima del termine della seconda guerra mondiale, sganciò sulla città giapponese di Hiroshima la prima bomba atomica della storia a essere stata utilizzata in guerra, soprannominata Little man.A causa del suo ruolo nei bombardamenti atomici di Hiroshima e Nagasaki, …