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Weren't hovercrafts developed in the 60's?

Anyways...the WWII Boeing B-29 bomber that dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima was named Enola Gay and the operative was called the Manhattan Engineer District, or more commonly... the Manhattan Project.

The bomb was known as 'Little Boy' and it took 43 seconds to reach the ground after being released. It was aimed at the Aioi Bridge.

Also, out of the 34 B-29's left, there is only 1 that is flyable.

I happen to like WWII (well...not the war...but studying it, it's quite interesting...it's interesting to see how much of the equipment back then is still in use today (although much of the technology has been updated, of course))
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