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Check This out More B-36 B-58 and others.
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There is a B-58 in the TX museum in Galveston. Another in Dayton, OH at the USAF museum.

I remember years ago they had a B-36 on display in Ft Worth at the airport. This was before DFW, so you know it was a while ago.
 
I used to visit the B-36 at Great Southwest Airport when I was a kid. The B-58 was at the Southwest Air Museum. I was a volunteer there. The B-36-The City of Ft Worth was to be the center piece of a new Museum, but that fell through. I don't know where she is now I had the priveledge of getting close to both the B-58 and the B-36 before the Southwest air museum closed. We cut the wings at the fuselage on the B-58 and removed the tail. It was then pulled on loop 820 around to Meacham Field. It stayed there for a while until it moved to Galveston. I hope Ike didn't mess her up too bad. I am very fond of these two aircraft. I lived on the flight path of Carswell AFB and was witness to many an approach and arrival when I was a kid.
 
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I used to visit the B-36 at Great Southwest Airport when I was a kid. The B-58 was at the Southwest Air Museum. I was a volunteer there. The B-36-The City of Ft Worth was to be the center piece of a new Museum, but that fell through. I don't know where she is now I had the priveledge of getting close to both the B-58 and the B-36 before the Southwest air museum closed. We cut the wings at the fuselage on the B-58 and removed the tail. It was then pulled on loop 820 around to Meacham Field. It stayed there for a while until it moved to Galveston. I hope Ike didn't mess her up too bad. I am very fond of these two aircraft. I lived on the flight path of Carswell AFB and was witness to many an approach and arrival when I was a kid.
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I was at the LSFM a few months ago, and the B-58 was still there. All the planes they flew to safety, and the work-in-progress Privateer were in the main room to walk around. All the planes that took a bath during Ike were in the second hanger roped off so you couldn't see them up close. The B-58 didn't have too much to damage, there weren't any engines in it, and the cockpit was well above the waterline on that high landing gear.
 
Yeah She never had any engines when we had her either. I spent many an afternoon with that plane hated to see her go. I'll look in my archives and see if I can find some of her pictures when we moved her quite a sight to see a B-58 being towed on the interstate. As I remember the tires were in pretty bad shape but Lockheed Martin had a set they installed so we could move it.
 
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