The Enola Gay, fully rtored and on view at the Smhsonian, left an lible mark
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THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
18) unveiled the newly reassembled Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs ed to drop the first atomic bomb bat. Rtoratn work on the Enola Gay began 1984 and volved a total of some 300, 000 staff airplane's forward and aft felage sectns, wgs, landg gear, eng, propellers and vertil stabilizer were brought together for the first time sce 1960 an arduo operatn this sprg and summer the Udvar-Hazy (pronounced OOD-var HAH-zee) Center's aviatn hangar. The airplane's ponents had been transported to the center earlier this year over a perd of weeks 12 tckloads om the mm's storage and prervatn facily Suland, a wgspan of 141 feet and a gross weight of 137, 500 pounds, the Enola Gay is too large and too heavy to be hoed tact the mm's flagship buildg on the Natnal Mall Washgton.
In prentg the reassembled Enola Gay, mm director Gen.
INSI THE ENOLA GAY
Even Boeg logo ps om the perd were tracked down for the center of the pilot and -pilot's ntrol wheels for a plete rtoratn of the Enola Gay was built at the Glen L.