Enola Gay Under Tarp

• bluechromis

• Feb 4, 2022

Nice shot. Does the plane glow when the lights are out?

 

• CMoore

• Feb 5, 2022

Where is that.?
I love WW2 history and hardware.!

Great shot.
Are you on a lift or something.?

 

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  TheFlyingCamera

• Feb 5, 2022

@bluechromis no it does not

 

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  TheFlyingCamera

• Feb 5, 2022

@CMoore this is at the Air & Space Museum Annex by Dulles International Airport. There’s an elevated walkway that puts you just above cockpit level.

 

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  Acere

• Feb 6, 2022

B-29 Superfortress. One of my favorites!

 

• benjiboy

• Feb 7, 2022

Enola Gay was the name of the pilot Lt Col. Paul Tibbet's mother.

 

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  TheFlyingCamera

• Feb 7, 2022

@benjiboy I got to meet him some years ago. He was doing a book tour and signing copies when I was working in the Pentagon. I still have my autographed copy - I suspect his autograph doesn't add much value to it though, as I got the impression that he made a significant portion of his retirement income from book signings.

 

• benjiboy

• Feb 14, 2022

@TheFlyingCamera
I know it's off the subject, but Nagasaki was was the most unlucky city in history, because the second nuclear bomb was going to be dropped on Kokura but the 100 % cloud cover over the target made it impossible for the bombardier to see the ground with the Norden bombsight, so they had to go to Nagasaki the secondary target.

 

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  TheFlyingCamera

• Feb 14, 2022

@benjiboy which, considering the nature of nuclear weapons, is rather ironic - you don't need precision when the blast radius for the bomb is measured in miles. As they say "close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear weapons"

 

• benjiboy

• Mar 2, 2022

@TheFlyingCamera
You're quite right Scott I don't understand either, because they were "airbursts".