Toys and Models A2072 B-29A Enola Gay Atomic Bomber 1/72 # 82

The B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber. It was one of the largest aircraft to see service in World War II and a very advanced bomber for its time, with features such as a pressurized cabin, an electronic fire-control system, and remote-controlled machine-gun turrets. Originally the B-29 was designed as a high-altitude daytime bomber, but it was used extensively in low-altitude night-time incendiary bombing missions. It was the primary aircraft used in the American firebombing campaign against the Empire of Japan in the final months of World War II and was used to carry out the atomic bombings that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This specific B-29 model is painted as "Fifi", which is owned by the Commemorative Air Force and is the only B-29 currently flying. "Fifi" tours the U.S.A. and Canada, taking part in air shows and offering flight experiences. This handcrafted model is painstakingly built from Philippine mahogany by our skilled craftsmen with a wealth of detail and makes a great gift for any veteran, aviation enthusiast or history buff.

The B-29 Enola Gay is the most complicated and propeller-driven bomber aircraft in the Second World War. The crew quarters are in the b29`s pressurized compartments and the aircraft has highly developed armaments and avionics systems. It brought the first nuclear weapons used in the Pacific Theater war. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. dropped the first atomic bomb Little Boy in Hiroshima Japan. The strategies for the first atomic bombing were set in August 1945. There were seven Superfortress aircrafts three of which were to scout in front. One of them is to measure the blast of the bomb and one photo plane is assigned to be the standby plane and the primary plane. The aircrafts bombing is visual not radar. They used it to target the cities of Hiroshima Kokura Niigata and Nagasaki. Paul Tibbets own aircraft decided to name it Enola Gay after his loving mother. This gave him inspiration while he was building it. The Enola Gay allows 12 crewmen. In the afternoon of August 5 the Americans placed the bomb into the Enola Gay plane. The Little Boy atomic bomb is 12 feet long and 28 inches in diameter. Its power matches up 20 000 tons of TNT or approximately as much as two thousand Superfortress aircrafts could take. They started their engines in August 6 1945 at 2:30 AM. Three hours after they flew over Iwo Jima at dawn where 5 500 Americans and 25 000 Japanese had died so that the USAAF could use Iwo as an emergency landing field. They altered course and went northwest. They climbed to 30 700 feet for their bombing altitude. And at 8:30 they got a coded message saying Hiroshima was covered with clouds. At 9:15AM they dropped the "Little Boy" and made a 155 degree diving turn to the right.- SKU: TAM470