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"We're proud to be able to give America one more chance to see this flying piece of history," Dailey said.
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Exxon has donated all of the fuel and AeroShell will donate the oil, and Enola Gay will need lots of both. In all, the restoration crew kept the actual condition of the Enola Gay secret for over ten years.Įxxon Mobil and AeroShell will sponsor the national tour.
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Wright R-3350 radial engines were test-run in the Garber facility one at a time in 2001, and NASM personnel explained to curious neighbors that the racket the whole neighborhood had heard a few nights in a row was caused by blown mufflers on a rented auxiliary generator that they had to use during a “wiring problem”. Under the orders of the NASM administrators, everything on the Enola Gay was restored to airworthy condition. The anniversary tour was conceived when the Enola Gay was undergoing a complete restoration that began in the 1980s. B-29 pilots trained for their top-secret bombing mission at Wendover Air Force Base (now closed), about 60 miles from Salt Lake City. The stop at Salt Lake City, UT will include a special recognition of the crew of the Enola Gay, and every other B-29 crew in the 509th Composite Bomb Group. Paul Tibbets, her chief pilot, picked her off the assembly line himself, and named her “Enola Gay,” in honor of his mother. The stop at Omaha, NE will be special, because the Enola Gay, while designed by Boeing, was one of the 531 B-29 Superfortresses manufactured by the Glenn Martin Aircraft Company in Omaha. The Enola Gay will spend between two and four days at each stop, depending upon the size of the crowds expected, and to give the crew time to rest and maybe do a little fine-tuning and/or tinkering with the B-29. Some of the stops are at unlikely places, but because the time of the flight will correspond with part of the summer airshow season, towns that are not on the airshow circuit become logical choices for stops on the tour. Since the B-29 will not be carrying bombs (or an A-bomb like she did in August, 1945), she will be able to make trips of several hundred miles at a time as she works her way across the Nation. The itinerary will take the famous B-29 to some thirteen airports from one coast to the other. But instead the media were surprised with the Enola Gay announcement. That B-17F was recently “recalled” by the USAF Museum from its previous home on Mud Island in Memphis, TN. The media release indicated Dailey would be talking about the building of another hangar at the Center to house more aerospace artifacts, such as the famous Memphis Belle. Dailey, USMC (Ret),made the surprise joint announcement at a news conference at the Udvar-Hazy Center Thursday. This will be a one-way trip that will be long-remembered by the warbird and historical community.įAA Administrator Randy Babbitt and NASM Director Gen. The announcement is being made to enable the warbird community as a whole to modify the airshow schedule so that other WWII aircraft will be able to participate in the historic event. After the tour, the plane will be disassembled into large pieces that will be shipped by a special train from the final tour stop back to the Udvar-Hazy Center, which is at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC. The tour will begin in June and run through August. In honor of the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII, the NASM staff has been secretly preparing the B-29 Enola Gay to make her airworthy for a commemorative flight across the United States. The National Air and Space Museum made a surprising announcement Thursday. From April 1st, 2010: Famous Airplane Will Fly Again, Thanks To Extensive, Secret Renovation ANN’s April 1 “April Fools” Special Edition Classic