NASA's modified B-29 Mothership launched the X-1 and D-558, enabling the first Mach 1 and Mach 2 flights and advancing ...

Nearly two years before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into the Second World War, the US Army Air Corps asked American aircraft manufacturers to design a bomber that could fly 3 ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, features around 350 planes and missiles in its collection, but there's one aircraft in the World War II Gallery that attracts a particularly ...

This collection consists of thirteen 7 by 9 inch b&w images taken in 1945, most featuring Boeing B-29 Superfortresses on bombing raids over Sakai, Tamashima, Yokohama, Kobe and other targets in Japan.

Restoration Specialist Bernie Poppert talks about the restoration and assembly of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay," on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy ...