faux b-29 bockscar??
Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:12 pm
i just caught the end of a b-29 documentary on the b-29. they showed a complete b-29 with bockscar's nose art. i was under the impression that the real bockscar was the forward fuselage on display at the usaf museum in dayton. which is the real deal??
Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:15 pm
The WHOLE airplane (BOCKS CAR) is on display at Dayton. Has been for 30+ years.
Now the Enola Gay started out as a NOSE section on display (the rest of the plane was at Silver Hill) in DC, some years back. Now the airplane is back together at the HAZY CENTER at Dulles Airport outside DC.
Mark H
Now the Enola Gay started out as a NOSE section on display (the rest of the plane was at Silver Hill) in DC, some years back. Now the airplane is back together at the HAZY CENTER at Dulles Airport outside DC.
Mark H
Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:15 pm
I believe that the entire Bockscar is on display at NMUSAF. I think the fuselage section you are thinking of is the faux Command Decision.
kevin
kevin
Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:32 pm
You can see Bockscar in her (complete) glory here...
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b29registry/b29-4427297.html
and here...
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_media.asp?fsID=527
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b29registry/b29-4427297.html
and here...
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_media.asp?fsID=527
Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:41 pm
She is really something to see. 
Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:01 pm
Tulsaboy .... you are correct ...
Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:23 pm
i was looking at BOCKSCAR in its complete glory at the Aif Force Museum just exactly one week ago, today. 
TC
TC
Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:31 pm
I missed you by a day. I was there on Sunday.
Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:44 pm
Darn......I would have liked to run into you, mustangdriver. When I was staying in Columbus for the Gathering I stayed at the Baymont Inn at the Columbus airport. Where were you staying??
TC
TC
Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:07 pm
I was at the Comfort Inn near the field.
Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:45 am
In the registry it shows that Bocks Car was "ferried" out of DM in 2002. Was she flown out or was she trucked out in pieces?
Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:50 am
Connery wrote:In the registry it shows that Bocks Car was "ferried" out of DM in 2002. Was she flown out or was she trucked out in pieces?
I think you will find that it was ferried to Dayton in 1961. The entry is a little unclear here I'm afraid.
T J
Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:00 am
The Museum website states that Bockscar was flown to the museum on Sept. 26, 1961.
Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:28 am
She is 100% all original.