Shown in the accompanying photograph, 'Bockscar' is the B-29 that dropped the nuclear weapon on Nagasaki in 1945.
My biggest chore will be finding home for the danged thing when it's ready to hang on the ceiling. Though the 'Enola Gay' is in storage, aviation enthusiasts hope that it will be placed on public display in the future. When I blow up this plan, I'll have to invent the nose, and engine nacelles at the very least, and I'm sure a half dozen other items, just to pull up close to an accurate rendering of the plane. FOR SALE The Academy Plastic Model Company has been producing kits since 1969. The difficulty in buying just the plans is not the balsa, in my opinion, but the plastics. ACADEMY 12528 B-29A Enola Gay or Bockscar 1/72 Scale Plastic Model Kit - 59.04. They can command the price for plans that they do because you can't get the plans "legally" anywhere else. Having said that, when I do my blow-up I'll not do the "Atom Bomber" but a "Tokyo Firebomber" in green and black, as I think I've seen enough renderings of the silver plane. The Enola Gay no matter what is an historical icon, never to be forgotten. The "governing body" of all things R/C and presumably everything else to do with the airplane hobby. The AMA is the American Modelers Association. i don't know about paying $50 for plans when whole large scale kitsĪre $90 at Megahobby, unless you have your own balsa grove on the farm there. I think when they bring back the B 29 it's a good idea to leave off the Enola Gay stuff.