Aeronautics at the national air and space museum. And we are here this morning at the national air and space museum. This is the place where our museum keeps all of its largest objects and some pretty dine darn spectacular things when you come right down to it. You are looking here at the b29 enola gay, named after the pilots mother. Paul tibbets flew this airplane to hiroshima and dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on an enemy target. Again, he named the airplane after his mother, the enola gay. It is certainly the most emotionally laden artifact, i think its safe to say, in the entire collection of the national air and space museum. However you come down on the issues that it represents, atomic warfare and that kind of thing, it sort of is an icon that wraps all of those issues up in itself, so people do have interesting reactions to this airplane on all kinds of sides of the issue. It is a b29 that was built not by the boeing company, which designed the b29. Enola gay was built at
History tv. Each week, american artifact takes you to museums and historic places. Mr. Crouch hi, my name is tom crouch. I am the senior curator of aeronautics at the national air and space museum. And we are here this morning at the national air and space museum. The steven center. This is the place where our museum keeps all of its largest objects and some pretty darn spectacular things when you come right down to it. You are looking here at the b29 enola gay, named after the pilots mother. Paul tibbets was the pilot who flew this airplane to hiroshima, japan on august 6, 1945, and dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on an enemy target. Again, he named the airplane after his mother, the enola gay. It is certainly the most emotionally laden artifact, i think its safe to say, in the entire collection of the national air and space museum. However you come down on the issues that it represents, atomic warfare and that kind of thing, it sort of is an icon that wraps all of those issues u
Washingtons dulles airport. Well see the airplanes that have carried americans aloft from the earliest days of the 20th century. Hi. May name is tom crouch. I am the senior curator of aeronautics at the national air around space museum. And we are here this morning at the national air and space museum Housing Center. This is the place where our museum keeps all of its largest objects and some pretty darn spectacular things when you come right down to it. We are standing almost in front of one of my favorite machines. Its the 1903 langley airplane. Aerodrone, as he called it. Samuel langley was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. From the mid 1880s until the time of his death in 1906. He was sort of a selftaught astronomer. He was the founder of the Smithsonian Astro physical observatory and he founded the zoo and some of the museums we have today. But he was really fascinated, and had been since childhood, by the idea of flight. And in the late 1880s, he decided to begi
Prizewinning flight, but it was the recordbreaking flight. And so they went to the trouble to reinstall the dented engine nozzle on it. Our next stop will be sky lab, and were going to look at that because it is one of the original artifacts on display here since before this Museum Opened. Sky lab is so large, it was brought into the museum before the building was closed out. Now im standing in front of a model of sky lab thats as tall as i am but the real sky lab orbital work station behind me absolutely dwarfs the model and me. It reaches from the floor up into the sky lights of this building, two stories tall. Sky lab was the United States first space station, placed in orbit in 1973 and in 1973 and 74, three different nasa astronaut crews spent time aboard it. Three men at a time, one group was there for one month. Another group for two months, and the third group for three months. The whole point of the sky lab missions was to get some experience in living and working in space. Wh
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