Editing Enola Gay (section)

===Complete restoration and display===
[[File:Enola Gay on Display at Udvar-Hazy.jpg|upright=3|thumb|center|The ''Enola Gay'' on display at the National Air and Space Museum, [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]]]]
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Its restoration work began in 1984, and eventually required 300,000 staff hours. While the fuselage was on display, from 1995 to 1998, work continued on the remaining unrestored components. The aircraft was shipped in pieces to the National Air and Space Museum's [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]] in [[Chantilly, Virginia]] from March–June 2003, with the fuselage and wings reunited for the first time since 1960 on 10 April 2003<ref name="AirIll" /> and assembly completed on 8 August 2003. The aircraft has been on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center since the museum annex opened on 15 December 2003.<ref name="Restoration">{{cite web |url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/garber/enola/enola.htm |title=Boeing B-29 'Superfortress': Enola Gay. |publisher=National air and Space Museum |access-date=8 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120101331/http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/garber/enola/enola.htm |archive-date=20 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a result of the earlier controversy, the signage around the aircraft provided only the same succinct technical data as is provided for other aircraft in the museum, without discussion of the controversial issues. It read:{{blockquote|
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.

On 6 August 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 [[National Museum of the United States Air Force|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.}}

[[File:Enola Gay nose.jpg|thumb|''Enola Gay'' nose, port side, at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]]
{{Blockquote|''Transferred from the U.S. Air Force''

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Wingspan: {{convert|43|m|ftin|abbr=off}}<br/>
Length:{{convert|30.2|m|ft|abbr=on}}<br/>
Height: {{convert|9|m|ftin|abbr=off}}<br/>
Weight, empty: {{convert|32,580|kg|lb|abbr=on}}<br/> 
Weight, gross: {{convert|63,504|kg|lb|abbr=on}}<br/>  
Top speed: {{convert|546|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}<br/>  
Engines: 4 Wright R-3350-57 Cyclone turbo-supercharged radials, 2,200 hp<br/> 
Crew: 12 (Hiroshima mission)<br/> 
Armament: two .50 caliber machine guns<br/> 
Ordnance: Little Boy atomic bomb<br/>  
Manufacturer: Martin Co., Omaha, Nebraska, 1945<br/>  
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The display of the ''Enola Gay'' without reference to the historical context of World War II, the Cold War, or the development and deployment of nuclear weapons aroused controversy. A petition from a group calling themselves the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy bemoaned the display of ''Enola Gay'' as a technological achievement, which it described as an "extraordinary callousness toward the victims, indifference to the deep divisions among American citizens about the propriety of these actions, and disregard for the feelings of most of the world's peoples".<ref name="petition">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050202070603/http://www.enola-gay.org/ |url=http://www.enola-gay.org |archive-date=2 February 2005 |publisher=Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy |title=Statement of Principles |access-date=8 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> It attracted signatures from notable figures including historian [[Gar Alperovitz]], social critic [[Noam Chomsky]], whistle blower [[Daniel Ellsberg]], physicist [[Joseph Rotblat]], writer [[Kurt Vonnegut]], producer [[Norman Lear]], actor [[Martin Sheen]] and filmmaker [[Oliver Stone]].<ref name="petition"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2003/historians-protest-new-enola-gay-exhibit |title=Historians Protest New Enola Gay Exhibit |first=Debbie Ann |last=Doyle |date=December 2003 |publisher=American History Association |access-date=20 February 2018 |archive-date=27 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927202120/https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2003/historians-protest-new-enola-gay-exhibit |url-status=live }}</ref>
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