Paul Tibbetts
The pilot was Paul w. Tibbets.
The name of the pilot who flew the first plane to drop an atomic bomb is Colonel Paul Tibbets. He was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb.
B-29 Superfortress named "Enola Gay". It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the bomber's pilot Paul Tibbets.
Colonel Tibbets was the Pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the first Atomic bomb in the history of mankind on Heroshima.
The plane Enola Gay' - was named after Enola Gay Tibbets- the mother of the pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets, who flew the mission to drop the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
"Enola Gay" was the name given the USAAF's B-29 bomber that dropped the first-ever atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The pilot, Paul Tibbetts, named the plane for his mother, Enola Gay Tibbetts. (see related question)
When he saw the mushroom cloud rise from the atomic bomb he just dropped.
Enola Gay was named after the mother of the Hiroshima pilot Lieut Col. Paul Tibbets (Enola Gay Haggard)
"Enola Gay." The B29 Superfortress was named after the mother of pilot Colonel Paul. W. Tibbets, Jr.
USA! The plane used was call the Enola Gay. I think it was named after the pilot's mama!
USA! The plane used was call the Enola Gay. I think it was named after the pilot's mama!
If you mean the world's first nuclear explosion, the test on July 16, 1945, there was no pilot, and the bomb was not dropped. It was mounted on a steel tower and detonated by remote control, completely vaporizing the tower and turning the soil to glass for hundreds of yards from the heat.