Tibbets was quite gracious and friendly to a nobody from Tucson, Arizona. I did call him but he didn't know of a B29 by that name either so "the Dutchess" remained unidentified. We spent about a half hour talking about it but he didn't recall the name and suggested that it might have been a research B29 out of Los Alamos and suggested I call Chuck Sweeney in Boston and gave me his phone number. An experienced pilot in World War II, he reported to Colorado Springs in Septebmer, 1944, for a top secret assignment - to organize a bombardment group to deliver the atomic bomb.
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He was quite helpful and told me about the special production run of B29s in Witchita and how to identify them from a regular production model. The B-29 'Enola Gay' at the Udvar-Hazy Center (Airplanes Online Staff Photo) Paul Tibbets was born February 23, 1915, son of Enola Gay and Paul Warfield Tibbets. I simply called Paul Tibbets on the phone (he had a jet charter company at that time) and explained about my researching a B29 named "The Dutchess". The scrap dealer thought it had been one of the "atom bomber" planes so I thought that it should be preserved if that story was true and started checking around to see if anyone could confirm it. Visit the National Park Service Travel American Aviation to learn more about Aviation related Historic Sites.Tibbets used to be quite accessible- back in the mid- '70s I was researching a B29 nose that had turned up in a local salvage yard with nose art called "The Dutchess". Fairmont Army Airfield still retains several WWII era structures and sites whereas the other remaining airfields in the state have lost the majority of their primary structures and buildings associated with Nebraska's WWII legacy. still standing as are a number of aircraft hangars, office buildings and maintenance shops. Military budgets that you would think a place of such historical significance would. From 1942 to 1947, it was known as Roswell Army Air- field.
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There is also a water tower surrounded by a 20-acre area containing numerous ruins and foundations. Re: Wendover Enola Gay Hangar receives Grant Reply 8 on: December 31, 2008, 02:51:01 PM Larry C - You are 100 correct with the notion that there is so much money sloshing around, not only across the street in Nevada, but in most of the different Govt. There are six surviving buildings which include a small oil storage building, a small pump house and four large bomber aircraft hangars. Dominating the subsonic jet fighter field, the. An Airlander in its equally giant hangar in Cardington, England BOOK OF AIRCRAFT Military 66 32 Aerobatic displays 42 100 years of ghter planes 50. Presently there are three mostly extant runways which extend nearly 7,000 feet in length, alongside their related taxiways and aprons. The Enola Gay A plane entirely famous for its atomic payload, the Enola Gay dropped one of the most destructive bombs in human history. The long-disance bombers trained at Wendover Airfield. Three days later, the bomb Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. Company First name Last name Title Email ID Phone City State Country/Territory Industry Sub-Industries Careplus Medical Inc.
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Paul Tibbets, dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. Photo courtesy of Nebraska State Historical Societyĭuring the war, the Fairmont Army Airfield encompassed approximately 2,000 acres of converted farm land and consisted of 275 support buildings and structures, with the capacity to accommodate 3,700 military personnel. The hangar has been partway restored through the Historic Wendover Airfield Foundation.