B-29 SUPERFORTRESS

Bombers
NAME OF AIRCRAFTDESCRIPTION
B-29 The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named “Little Boy”, was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target, Nagasaki, being bombed instead.
One of the largest aircraft of World War II, the B-29 had state-of-the-art technology, including a pressurized cabin, dual-wheeled, tricycle landing gear, and an analog computer-controlled fire-control system that allowed one gunner and a fire-control officer to direct four remote machine gun turrets. The $3 billion cost of design and production (equivalent to $43 billion today),[3] far exceeding the $1.9 billion cost of the Manhattan Project, made the B-29 program the most expensive of the war.[4][5] The B-29’s advanced design allowed it to remain in service in various roles throughout the 1950s. The type was retired in the early 1960s after 3,970 of them had been built. A few were used as flying television transmitters by the Stratovision company. The Royal Air Force flew the B-29 as the Washington until 1954.
SPECIFICATIONSDESCRIPTION
STATUSFLYABLE
MANUFACTURERGENERAL MOTORS COMPANY – EASTERN AIRCRAFT DIVISION 
YEAR1945
MODELTBM-3E AVENGER
CREW3
MAX T/O WEIGHT17,364 lb
SPAN54 ft. 2 in.
LENGTH40 ft. 0 in.
HEIGHT 16 ft. 5 in.
MAXIMUM SPEED 267 MPH
CRUISE SPEED145 mph
RATE OF CLIMB 2,060 FT/MIN
POWERPLANT1, 1,700-HP WRIGHT R-2600-20 DOUBLE CYCLONE 14-CYLINDER AIR-COOLED RADIAL ENGINE
RANGE1,105 MILES
SERVICE CEILING22,400 FT
ARMAMENT4 MACHINE GUNS: TWO .50-CAL FORWARD, ONE TURRET .50-CAL, & ONE VENTRAL .30-CAL
NICKNAME/DESCRIPTION SERIAL NUMBERNAME OF MUSEUMCITYSTATE
ENOLA GAY37973-NACA-143STEVEN-UDVAR-HAZYCHANTILLY
VIRGINIA
NAGASAKI- BOXCARNACA-144WRIGHT-PATTERSON-AIR-MUSEUMDAYTONOHIO
MISS AMERICA 6242-65281TRAVIS AFB HERITAGE MUSEUMFAIRFIELDCALIFORNIA
RAZEN-HELL44-61535CASTLE AIR MUSEUMATWATERCALIFORNIA
BUILT AT BELL ATLANTA AS B-29B. IN 1956 SENT TO ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND FOR USE AS A TARGET. RECOVERED IN 1983 AND PUT ON DISPLAY.44-84053MUSEUM OF AVIATIONWARNER ROBINSGEORGIA
BUILT AT BELL ATLANTA AS B-29B. DELIVERED 4 AUGUST 1945 TO WALKER AAF. USED BY MULTIPLE UNITS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES UNTIL 1959. STRUCK OFF COMMAND IN JULY 1959 AND TRANSFERRED TO SAC MUSEUM. FORMERLY DISPLAYED AS “MAN O’ WAR.” RECENTLY RESTORED AND PAINTED AS “LUCKY LADY.”44-84076STRATEGIC AIR AND SPACEASHLANDNEBRASKA
THIS BUILT AT BOEING WICHITA AS B-29. SENT TO NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION CHINA LAKE IN 1956 FOR USE AS A TARGET. RECOVERED IN 1985. WEARS LIVERY OF “LEGAL EAGLE II.44-87779SOUTH DAKOTA AIR AND SPACERAPID CITYSOUTH DAKOTA
STEVEN UDVAR HAZY
HIROSHIMA-
STEVEN UDVAR HAZY-
CHANTILLY VA
WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR MUSEUM-
DAYTON OHIO
B-29 NAGASAKI- WRIGHT PATTERSON
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE HERITAGE MUSEUM
B-29- MISS AMERICA 62
TRAVIS AIR-FORCE BASE
CASTLE AIR MUSEUM-
ATWATER CALIFORNIA

B-29 -RAZENHELL-
CASTLE AIR MUSEUM-
MUSEUM OF AVIATION-
WARNER ROBINS GA
B-29B-MUSEUM OF AVIATION
SOUTH DAKOTA AIR AND SPACE
SOUTH DAKOTA AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM-
RAPID CITY