To clarify:- "Enola Gay" flew Weather reconnaissance c/s Dimples 82, two hours ahead of "Bocks Car" on 9 August.
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To clarify:- "Enola Gay" flew Weather reconnaissance c/s Dimples 82, two hours ahead of "Bocks Car" on 9 August.I met a B-29 pilot once, nice guy (don't recall his name), but we did have a friend of the family that served aboard B-29s during WWII, who was a radar operator.
He was aboard Enola Gay during the Nagasaki mission, too.
You are forgetting that Britain had the Stirling, Lancaster and Halifax several years before the B-29 entered service in any numbers. That trio proved that they could deliver strategic bombing from 1942 on, two years before the B-29.
And although all 3 aircraft made their contributions to the war effort, they were a generation behind the B-29.You are forgetting that Britain had the Stirling, Lancaster and Halifax several years before the B-29 entered service in any numbers. That trio proved that they could deliver strategic bombing from 1942 on, two years before the B-29.
And although all 3 aircraft made their contributions to the war effort, they were a generation behind the B-29.
And to clarify further, Enola Gay was weather recon over Kokura (primary target) and Laggin' Dragon (Dimples 95) was weather recon over Nagasaki (secondary target).To clarify:- "Enola Gay" flew Weather reconnaissance c/s Dimples 82, two hours ahead of "Bocks Car" on 9 August.
I believe someone posted a pretty detailed drawing that showed Fat Man would not fit in the Lancaster, or it it did there was just about no clearance on either side of the bomb bay.
I believe there had to access to the bomb in flight for final arming.
Could be wrong.
Possibly, but I also believe there was a clearance issue within the aircraftI though there would be a ground clearance problem, as well as drag, du to the bulk of the bomb being external to the aircraft.
Little Boy would have fitted, but the same problem of access for arming would have reared its ugly head, Not to mention that the lanc and Lincoln were unpressurised so have restricted service ceilings! The major reason why relatively few B-29s got shot down by fighters was thet they flew so high!I though there would be a ground clearance problem, as well as drag, du to the bulk of the bomb being external to the aircraft.
Little Boy would have fitted, but the same problem of access for arming would have reared its ugly head, Not to mention that the lanc and Lincoln were unpressurised so have restricted service ceilings! The major reason why relatively few B-29s got shot down by fighters was thet they flew so high!
The wright engines were a failure. A lot of airman died because of this
The R-3350 was most certainly not a failure - the rushed development caused complications that were eventually ironed out.The wright engines were a failure. A lot of airman died because of this
The R-3350 was most certainly not a failure - the rushed development caused complications that were eventually i
This holds true to many Allied and Axis types.
The wartime demand to get equipment into operation often times saw situations where modifications and upgrades were needed that would have taken much longer to debug during peacetime.
Little Boy would have fitted, but the same problem of access for arming would have reared its ugly head,
Not to mention that the lanc and Lincoln were unpressurised so have restricted service ceilings! The major reason why relatively few B-29s got shot down by fighters was thet they flew so high!
They NEVER took off with armed nuclear weapons, and the still don't. Modern weapons are automatically armed in a very similar fashion. The pit is removed until the weapon is armed. Either a weapons technician or the bombs arming mechanism inserts the pit and completes tamper and explosive lens shells. The early weapons stored the pits in special containers in the aircraft, rather than inside the bomb.Their last six months' service over Japan were relatively low-level, under ten thousand feet, at night, in the firebombings. Minelaying as well was a low-level operation.
I don't know that the A-bomb had to be armed during flight. I bet it was possible to arm on the ground and take off with it.
The R-3350 was most certainly not a failure - the rushed development caused complications that were eventually ironed out.
This holds true to many Allied and Axis types.
The wartime demand to get equipment into operation often times saw situations where modifications and upgrades were needed that would have taken much longer to debug during peacetime.
No. They were mother loving expensive, and we sent a lot of good men to the far beyond early because of those sons of bitches, but they were not a failure in the long run.The wright engines were a failure. A lot of airman died because of this