Subdeacon Joe 18,563 Posted April 13 http://horseformer.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-convair-b-36-peacemaker.html 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michigan Slim 3,740 Posted April 13 Talked with a navigator a couple months ago. He is a good friends Pa. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Utah Bob #35998 11,449 Posted April 13 Awesome yes, Beautiful?? Well.......... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rolan Kraps, SASS # 24084 Life 342 Posted April 14 And you can see one at the official USAF Museum in Dayton Ohio. Truly amazing machine when you are close up to it! 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 1,776 Posted April 14 13 minutes ago, Rolan Kraps, SASS # 24084 Life said: And you can see one at the official USAF Museum in Dayton Ohio. Truly amazing machine when you are close up to it! I stood under that one. Wow, it’s gargantuan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colorado Coffinmaker 2,723 Posted April 14 Just for interest, the B-36 at the USAF Museum in Dayton, had a 20 foot "plug" taken out of the Fuselage both in front and behind the wing, to make it fit in the display hanger. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 5,641 Posted April 14 From. Wikipedia Quote The genesis of the B-36 can be traced to early 1941, prior to the entry of the United States into World War II. At the time, a very real chance apparently existed that Britain might fall to the German "Blitz", making a strategic bombing effort by the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) against Germany impossible with the aircraft of the time.[3] The United States would need a new class of bomber that would reach Europe and return to bases in North America,[4] necessitating a combat range of at least 5,700 miles (9,200 km), the length of a Gander, Newfoundland–Berlin round trip. The USAAC therefore sought a bomber of truly intercontinental range,[5][6]similar to the German Reichsluftfahrtministerium's (RLM)ultralong-range Amerikabomber program, the subject of a 33-page proposal submitted to Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering on 12 May 1942. Also Quote Engine fires[edit] B36-J (serial 52-2225) of the 11th Bombardment Wing in 1955 showing "six turning, four burning" As engine fires occurred with the B-36's radial engines, some crews humorously changed the aircraft's slogan from "six turning, four burning" into "two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking, and two more unaccounted for."[44][N 2] This problem was exacerbated by the propellers' pusher configuration, which increased carburetor icing. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 3,702 Posted April 14 My late uncle worked on the things when they were still flying ~ said he could pretty much count on swapping at least one engine after ever flight. Castle Air Museum - 'bout 40 miles up the road from me, in Atwater, California has one. That sucker is indeed huge. Gets right hot in the summertime in these parts; her slightly over a tenth of an acre of wing provides a lot of welcome shade! The Castle Air Museum plane was disassembled at Chanute AFB in Illinois, shipped to Atwater on 11 rail cars, then cobbled back together. Looked like a major junkyard for a while. There's a three-part YouTube series on the project, and a pretty cool article with tons of pictures here. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Utah Bob #35998 11,449 Posted April 14 3 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: My late uncle worked on the things when they were still flying ~ said he could pretty much count on swapping at least one engine after ever flight. Castle Air Museum - 'bout 40 miles up the road from me, in Atwater, California has one. That sucker is indeed huge. Gets right hot in the summertime in these parts; her slightly over a tenth of an acre of wing provides a lot of welcome shade! The Castle Air Museum plane was disassembled at Chanute AFB in Illinois, shipped to Atwater on 11 rail cars, then cobbled back together. Looked like a major junkyard for a while. There's a three-part YouTube series on the project, and a pretty cool article with tons of pictures here. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Utah Bob #35998 11,449 Posted April 14 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwn1UYoGJgw 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forty Rod SASS 3935 5,104 Posted April 14 Baseball caps, wind breakers, and not a microchip anywhere. Amazing for its day and age. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
