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- Boeing B-29-35-MO Superfortress "Enola Gay"

- Enola Gay: former exhibition information, foward fuselage photos, interior cockpit panoramas.

 

 

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Dec 99
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Before and After
Polishing of the fuselage and restoration of the insignia are shown in May, October and December of 1999.

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Smithsonian Institution, #W1999CM0074

 

Dec 1999
The "Enola Gay" aft fuselage. The holes in the aft bomb bay pressure bulkhead are the pressurized tunnel opening leading to the flight deck (top) and the hatch into the bomb bay (center). This picture shows the aft fuselage after polishing.

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Smithsonian Institution, #W1999CM0021 		May, 1999
This photo was taken before polishing of the exterior was completed in summer, 1999. Note the propeller against the wall. This is one of the four propellers from the B-29. It is 16' 8" in diameter.
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Smithsonian Institution, #W1999CM0022 		May, 1999
The only guns mounted on the B-29s of the 509th Composite Group--the unit formed specifically to drop the special weapons--were the two .50 cal. machine guns in the aft turret. The gunner sat in the enclosed area above. The 20 mm cannon mounted on some B-29s was deleted on these aircraft.