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I’ve had the pleasure to see the Enola Gay hanger myself (nice video by the way) and it really is a great piece of American history in such an unlikely place like Wendover Nevada.
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The airport manager says they had averaged about 7 GA flights per day, but that seems to be down to about half that this past year.
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I took a visit to Wendover Airfield yesterday, walked around the old buildings and hiked up into the old control tower to see a 737 full of gamblers arrive from Texas. You will happy to know the YouTube video has been properly renamed. I’m going to have to make my way to Utah one of these days being the WWII buff that I am, this would be a worth while stop. Stop in next time you come through and watch for our new website in the next month or so! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.īoth comments and pings are currently closed.ħ Responses to “Enola Gay’s Wendover Hangar On Top 11 List”Īctually Scott, the museum foundation has been very active just struggled to find a good volunteer webmaster! We have renovated a squadron admin building, the old Officers Club is being restored (probably one of the last of its kind in the US) and we also are going to begin work on the “Enola Gay” hangar this year. On Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 10:57 pm and is filed under Airports, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, General, Military. You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Let’s hope, for the memory of the people who made history, and for future generations who can benefit from history’s lessons, that making the Top 11 Endangered List will, perhaps, influence the site’s future course. But the group’s last work, according to its website, was 2005, so the future seems uncertain. It has saved the squadron building, which houses a museum, and the bomb pit, where dummy Little Boys and Fat Man’s were lifted into the belly of the Enola Gay and Bock’s Car. Historic Wendover Airfield seems to be doing its best at preserving and restoring this historic place. Its parts now reunited, the Enola Gay now lives at NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Center. Like stopping at Wendover, I didn’t do it. Falling back from the small group I climbed on the wheeled cradle that held the tailboom, looked over the curved opening where the B-29’s tail feathers fit, and thought about climbing over it and through the manhole-size pressure door to George Caron’s tail gunner seat. The nose with its famous block lettering was just put on display at the National Air & Space Museum, and the craftsmen were working on the rest of the airplane. I was more intimate with the Enola Gay during a tour of the Garber Restoration Facility in the 1990s. With several hundred others in the audience, I first met Paul Tibbets at EAA AirVenture when it was still called Oshkosh, in the late 1970s or early 1980s. But unless action is taken soon, I’ll have to settle for two out of three, person and plane. But it was August, very hot, and I was sure I’d pass that way again. At the same time I kicked myself for not making the short detour from Interstate 80 on my cross-country motorcycle trip in 1974.
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Waiting for the YouTube video tour to load (after shaking my head at its unchangeable headline error), my mind played the scene where a black and white Eleanor Parker, playing the wife of 509th commander Paul Tibbets and bundled up in sheepskin flight gear, collects frozen sheets from her Wendover clothesline in the 1952 film, Above & Beyond.