Enola gay and avion

L'avion Enola Gay est personnellement choisi par le colonel Paul Tibbets , le commandant du th Composite Group, le 9 mai , alors qu'il est encore sur la ligne de montage. McVay III. Karl, un militaire du th [ 3 ]. Le commandant habituellement responsable de l'avion n'est pas Tibbets, mais Robert A. Little Boy avant son chargement dans l' Enola Gay.

The Enola Gay is a B Superfortress, which pilot Paul Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everything but the necessities, so as to be thousands of pounds lighter than an ordinary plane of that make. In , it was given an important task. When the bomb left the airplane, the plane jumped because you released 10, lbs. We lost 2, ft. Then it exploded. All we saw in the airplane was a bright flash. Shortly after that, the first shock wave hit us, and the plane snapped all over.

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. See also categories: Little Boy and Hiroshima in ruins. It was named after the pilot's mother.

The exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II featuring the refurbished B Enola Gay proposed by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum resulted in fierce controversy over how history should represent dropping an atom bomb on Japan. Experience the evolution of the Enola Gay controversy by reading through a chronological list of documents divided into five rounds:. Organized opposition, now public -- including the American Legion, members of Congress, and World War II veterans of all stripes -- to the direction of the Smithsonian exhibit mounts, forcing several more drafts, none of which satisfies the critics. A group of historians vigorously defend the museum, but a dispute over the number of lives saved by dropping the bomb dooms negotiations for an exhibit acceptable to the critics, and new Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman admits the museum made a mistake, cancels the exhibit, and plans a new, uncontroversial one.