Stunning 360 Panorama: Cockpit View Of The B-29 Enola Gay
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 05:35PM 
click the pic to experience the cockpit of the B-29 Enola Gay in stunning 360 detail
If you're like me, anytime is a good time to experience an active 360 degree hi-res journey thru the cockpit of a World War II warbird... but for me, this is a really perfect time, especially when the airplane is the actual B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
I've been soaking up quite a bit of WWII info since my Christmas Day post on the fascinating story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese Navy Commander who lead the first wave of aircraft in the Pearl Harbor attack. My research for that post lead me to a book and film project about his life (more on that A+ project before long), and that opened the door for me to have the amazing opportunity to read the book before it has been published. I finished it early this morning and I must say it was fantastic. For the first time in my life I have a fairly clear understanding of the events that lead to the attack of Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raid, the Battle of Midway, and the atomic bombs.
I admit that my WWII knowledge has really been pretty weak. I've known a lot about the airplanes, but not very much about pivotal events. Anyway, when I scan around in that amazing 360 degree hi-res view of the cockpit of the B-29 Enola Gay from the pilot's seat perspective, it tells me a much bigger story than it would have just a few weeks ago.
And then, there's the AirPigz meet-up at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio coming up on January 29 and 30 (2011) that stirs me all the more since I know I'll be in the presence of the B-29 named Bockscar, that dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
So please, take a few minutes, or if you have the time, take an hour and journey around inside the cockpit of the Enola Gay via this incredible panorama. You can zoom in and out too, in addition to scanning in all directions.
If you're interested in more of this kind of cool stuff, check out either DavidPalermo.com or worldvr.com where they have 360 panoramas of all kinds of spaces, but also another one from the bombardier's seat in Enola Gay, from the cockpit of Concorde, inside a Huey helicopter, and inside the Gemini 7 space capsule. It's all an amazing journey!
Reader Comments (1)
That is really awesome! I might have to figure out how to do this with the pictures I have of the B-29 Fifi