Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
Reading about the Enola Gay during it's bombing of Japan and was intrigued to read that at take off the B29 Enola Gay was 7 tons over weight.
I'd be astonished if it was 7 tons overloaded.
B-29 max combat overload of take-off weight was listed as only about 500kg at 61,000kg max.
And why would it need to be overloaded?
Tinian Field to Hiroshima and back was well within the combat radius of a B-29 with a full 20,000lb bomb load, and the Little Boy atomic bomb only weighed half of that at just under 10,000lb...?