Beautiful restoration of one of the most historic aircraft of all time. The Enola Gay has led a somewhat checkered life. It was dismantled in 1960 and finally put under cover and security at the Smithsonian's Paul Garber facility. Until that time it sat at various storage sites savaged by souvenir hunters, animals, and the weather. About 300,000 man-hours have gone into remedying that neglectful situation, plus researching and undoing a bunch of modifications made to this B-29 after Tinian .

Now completely reassembled and proudly displayed at the new Udvar-Hazy Museum at Dulles International Airport , Enola is ex ternally complete. Compared to today's jumbo aircraft it seems kind of small. A variety of avionics and some panel restoration will continue over the next few years... even though the public will not be allowed inside this aircraft. But happily the National Air & Space Museum is planning an interactive virtual tour of the interior to be from the web. Take a look...