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B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay 1.3 by Uncle T
   
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Era: WW2
Category: Military
Type: Plane
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B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay 1.3 by Uncle T

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FOR VERSION 1.3!
My version of the famous Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay that dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima.

It's an approximation, not a 1:1 replica.

The B-29 had a rather large crew of 11:Pilot, Co-pilot, Bombardier, Flight Engineer, Navigator, Radio Operator, Radar Observer, Right Gunner, Left Gunner, Central Fire Control, and Tail Gunner. All 11 corresponding seats are in the plane.

This is the "Silverplate" version of the plane used for dropping the nuclear bombs over Japan. All armour plating was removed and only the tail turret remains to save weight. It also carries extra fuel in the rear bomb bay.

Enola Gay carries a payload consisting of 1 Little Boy nuclear bomb in the front bomb bay.

Alt controls to fly.

W/S: Variable throttle.
S: Ground brakes.
A/D: Ground steering/Yaw.
Up/Down arrow: Pitch.
Left/Right Arrow: Roll.
X/Disable steering: Landing gear. *
Hold X/Reverse steering: Bomb bay doors.
Fire action 1/Num 1: Drop Little Boy. **
B/Beacon: Fire in engine 1.
K/Hazard lights: Fire in engine 2.
L/Headlights: Fire in engine 3.
(Alt+)PgUp-PgDn/Auxiliary: Fire in engine 4.

Camera 1: Bomb sight.
Camera 7 and 8: Left and right unner's viewing cupolas.

Alt + Arrow keys + Fire action 1/Num 1 or Mouse for all turrets from their respective seat. Camera numbers in parenthesis.
Tail turret (6) is controlled from the tail gunner's position under the tail fin.

* Also extends the tail bumper that prevents the rear ventral turret or the tail itself from scraping the ground on take-off. This was a real feature.
Red warning lights in cockpit and for flight engineer when landing gear is up.

** I added a thruster to make the Little Boy fall nose down more reliably.
The extremely annoying randomness of the game sometimes sends the bomb into the plane, or any which way but down, but it works most of the time.
The bomb is set to explode a bit off the ground. Sadly the boom is not very impressive. :)

Due to limitations of the tools in Brick Rigs and also due to the plane's design (and my lack of patience and abiility) there is a lot of clipping of the guns and other parts, and I know some areas are rough to say the least.
This is also why the flight controls do not move. They clip through the main windscreen and just go mad if they have any moving parts.
It is what it is, but the plane flies well and drops a nuke so... :)

Feel free to edit, but if you re-upload publically in any way please acknowledge the original creation and creator.

Have fun!
5 Comments
Mean Green  [author] 1 Aug, 2023 @ 1:57pm 
I've made a new version found at the link below where I've reduced the number of exploding fuel tanks in the bomb to about 1/3 of the original since the new game version apparently can't handle that number of explosives. I hope this one works better for you and everyone else.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3013513559
Mean Green  [author] 1 Aug, 2023 @ 1:29pm 
For some reason the nuke exploding (which worked fine in 1.2-1.4) does not approve of the new way explosions are handled in 1.5 and I get massive and I mean massive FPS drops that last for upwards to 30 seconds before it subsides. The Bockscar nuke works just fine, but this one has a few more parts and just grinds the game to a halt now, and in some cases the lag seems to cause the plane to explode. I'll try to reduce the number of explosive fuel tanks in this one sometime soon. Great way to update the game to once again utterly break stuff that worked before... 🙄
Mean Green  [author] 31 Jul, 2023 @ 5:32pm 
It shouldn't and it doesn't for me. However I get some extreme lag when this bomb explodes but not with the Bockscar bomb for somr reason (I'm so sick of all the random ass bullshit that happens in this game for no apparent reason) so maybe the lag spike somehow affects the plane for you. Sorry but I have no idea why it behaves like this now, it has never been a problem before so I'm guessing it has something to do witht he new way the game handles explosions. Clearly it's handling this bomb's explosion like absolute shite... Sorry I can't be of more help.
team fortress two 31 Jul, 2023 @ 3:51pm 
why does this explode when bomb explodes
Mean Green  [author] 22 Jan, 2023 @ 8:43am 
I'll slowly but surely tweak all of my planes to work better in 1.3 but there are quite a few so it may take a couple of weeks to get them all done.