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I didn’t think that, my father thought it. And Iwas going to school at Gainesville, Florida, but I had to leave after two years and go to Cincinnati because Florida had no medical school. My dad had been in the real estate business down there for years, and at that time he was retired. If you want to go kill yourself, go ahead, I don’t give a damn.” Then Mom just quietly said, “Paul, if you want to go fly airplanes, you’re going to be all right.” And that was that. When I told them I was going to leave college and go fly planes in the army air corps, my dad said, “Well, I’ve sent you through school, bought you automobiles, given you money to run around with the girls, but from here on, you’re on your own. She was Enola Gay Haggard before she married my dad, and my dad never supported me with the flying – he hated airplanes and motorcycles. And that particular moment changed the whole world around. But once upon a time, you flew a plane called the Enola Gay over the city of Hiroshima, in Japan, on a Sunday morning – Aug– and a bomb fell. I noticed as we sat in that restaurant, people passed by. Now we’ve had a nice lunch, you and I and your companion. Me and Paul Tibbets, 89 years old, brigadier-general retired, in his home town of Columbus, Ohio, where he has lived for many years. I would say that utilizing the NMUSAF as a tool for modeling and historical research is one of the best possible paths you can take.We’re seated here, two old gaffers. The museum has a limited number of restoration staff and lots of projects- some things may take time to get across Wright Field to the restoration shop. However the museum has since corrected Strawberry ***** and the George had just gone back on display from undergoing an in depth restoration. Granted, some of the museum's oldest aircraft had accuracy problems, for example the markings on the B-24D 'Strawberry *****' and the N1K2 George. I believe that the NMUSAF does a very fine, meticulous, job of restoring their aircraft and compiling their exhibits. I also do aviation sheetmetal work and have seen the museum's restoration efforts. I spent quite a bit of time at the museum in June looking at the exhibits and examining the airplanes. I am also a history major specializing in aviation history. The bomb is painted a dark color but whether it is dark green or black is hard to tell. Unfortunately the lighting in that hangar is poor which makes photography difficult unless you have the best camera and lenses. I also have a photo of the Little Boy replica. The lighting in that particular hangar is the best of the three and Memphis Belle II, the F-105, has black lettering not red. Among them were two of the Memphis Belle II.
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I was at the NMUSAF in June of 2008 and took 300+ photos. They have been known to make the occasional faux pas, such as the red lettering on "Memphis Belle II." Unlike the National Air & Space Museum, I tend to take the USAF Museum's research with a grain of salt. Otherwise, get yourself an old set of Monogram instructions from the original release and follow them to convert the B29 into a silverplate bomber. However, since Meteor Productions is out of business, most everything that has a cutting edge label on it commands premium prices. Someone might have a set they're willing to part with but that's up to the people that have them.įYI: IF (and that's a big if) you can find a Silverplate conversion set for the Monogram B-29 by Cutting Edge, you might invest in that to make a more accurate replica. Microscale had a set of Enola Gay decals (sheet 48-569) but are long since out of production. I wouldn't use the originals as they probably will shatter when placed in water (there is a fix for that by spraying the entire sheet w/clearcoat or microscale liquid decal film) but since the original Monogram decals were "user unfriendly" I'd make my own. Someone might have a set of old Monogram decals that you may be able to scan/copy and print on decal paper. I have no idea whether this is correct or not. IIRC, Fatman was to be painted a "mustard" color. If someone has the original kit with the instructions, they should be able to tell you what color Monogram tells you to paint the little boy. There are no markings on the bomb of any kind (that I can discern), on black and white photos or the color photo at the USAF museum.
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The black and white photos of another similar bomb show it to be a color that is not black. A sister bomb to "Little Boy" in the museum of the air force is painted in, what is to me, a semi-gloss olive drab.