He has authored several magazine articles, helped teach several courses at Colgate University and for nearly 20 years has been the book review editor for the Air Force Historical Foundation’s Air Power History journal. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering an MS in Systems Management and is a graduate, former faculty member, and dean of the National Defense University. From 1996 to 2018 he served as a volunteer restorer on projects including the B-29 Enola Gay. He started with the Museum as a docent at its storage and restoration facility in 1977 and continues today. He devotes much of his time to the National Air and Space Museum. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Colonel Scott Willey began his career in 1968 and served in a variety of command and staff positions from the squadron and system program office level through the Office of Secretary of Defense.įollowing retirement in 1995, he worked as a consultant at the Pentagon in the area of international acquisition in the NATO arena and the new KC-46 aerial-refuelling aircraft. The Enola Gay ( / nol /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.
