{"id":131534,"date":"2019-02-13T22:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/steven-f-udvar-hazy-center-south-hangar-panorama-including-vought-os2u-3-kingfisher-seaplane-b-29-enola-gay-among-others\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:35:05","slug":"steven-f-udvar-hazy-center-south-hangar-panorama-including-vought-os2u-3-kingfisher-seaplane-b-29-enola-gay-among-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/steven-f-udvar-hazy-center-south-hangar-panorama-including-vought-os2u-3-kingfisher-seaplane-b-29-enola-gay-among-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: South hangar panorama, including Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher seaplane & B-29 Enola Gay, among others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: South hangar panorama, including Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher seaplane & B-29 Enola Gay, among others<\/strong>
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\nImage by Chris Devers<\/a><\/i>
\nQuoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Kingfisher was the U.S. Navy’s primary ship-based, scout and observation aircraft during World War II. Revolutionary spot welding techniques gave it a smooth, non-buckling fuselage structure. Deflector plate flaps that hung from the wing’s trailing edge and spoiler-augmented ailerons functioned like extra flaps to allow slower landing speeds. Most OS2Us operated in the Pacific, where they rescued many downed airmen, including World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker and the crew of his B-17 Flying Fortress.<\/p>\n

In March 1942, this airplane was assigned to the battleship USS Indiana. It later underwent a six-month overhaul in California, returned to Pearl Harbor, and rejoined the Indiana in March 1944. Lt. j.g. Rollin M. Batten Jr. was awarded the Navy Cross for making a daring rescue in this airplane under heavy enemy fire on July 4, 1944.<\/p>\n

Transferred from the United States Navy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Manufacturer:<\/strong>
\nVought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division<\/a><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong>
\n1937<\/p>\n

Country of Origin:<\/strong>
\nUnited States of America<\/p>\n

Dimensions:<\/strong>
\nOverall: 15ft 1 1\/8in. x 33ft 9 1\/2in., 4122.6lb., 36ft 1 1\/16in. (460 x 1030cm, 1870kg, 1100cm)<\/p>\n

Materials:<\/strong>
\nWings covered with fabric aft of the main spar<\/p>\n

Physical Description:<\/strong>
\nTwo-seat monoplane, deflector plate flaps hung from the trailing edge of the wing, ailerons drooped at low airspeeds to function like extra flaps, spoilers.<\/p>\n

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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its niche on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29s delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, and two nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. A third B-29, The Great Artiste, flew as an observation aircraft on both missions.<\/p>\n

Transferred from the United States Air Force.<\/em><\/p>\n

Manufacturer:<\/strong>
\nBoeing Aircraft Co.<\/a>
\nMartin Co., Omaha, Nebr.<\/a><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong>
\n1945<\/p>\n

Country of Origin:<\/strong>
\nUnited States of America<\/p>\n

Dimensions:<\/strong>
\nOverall: 900 x 3020cm, 32580kg, 4300cm (29ft 6 5\/16in. x 99ft 1in., 71825.9lb., 141ft 15\/16in.)<\/p>\n

Materials:<\/strong>
\nPolished overall aluminum finish<\/p>\n

Physical Description:<\/strong>
\nFour-engine heavy bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage and high-aspect ratio wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forces insignia on wings and aft fuselage and serial number on vertical fin; 509th Composite Group markings painted in black; "Enola Gay" in black, block letters on lower left nose.<\/p>\n

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