Great B-36 footage

From the movie SAC with Jimmy Stewart which is an excellent movie. The B-36 was the primary Strategic Air Command Nuclear Bomber from 1949 through the mid to late 50's. The B-52 started taking over the role once it reached sufficient numbers. You can see a B-36 in person at the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. It is worth the trip! BTW, they have the surviving XB-70.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_media.asp?fsID=360

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/NMAF_B-36.jpg
 
Back in the 70's there was a B-36 parked at an airport where Dallas/Ft Worth airport exists today. Then I read where some guys got the engines running and I think they flew it somewhere to have it restored. I guess they had to displace a lot of birds and snakes that had found a home in her. I don't remember what ever happened to it. But I used to pass it every day going between Arlington and Farmers Branch. I can remember the Flight Engineers motto, about the B-36, "Six a'churning and four a'burning".
It was a big, big airplane.
 
Yes sir, that would have been one big truck to drive!

You know, it's interesting how one pays more attention to details after one gets into a flight sim. For instance, I have been enjoying doing propwashs lately and I paid real close attention to how those props looked spinning. I never really gave it that much attention before. Life is strange.:friday:

Good cut from the SAC movie Fnerg. :applause:

Caz
 
As deathfromafar had mentioned,...a B-36 "Peacemaker" can be viewed at the US Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio. The bomber is truly jaw dropping when first viewed. It's displayed inside the museum not outside. (Museum dimensions are out of this world too) Four separate 'hangars' as such.
It carried a crew of 15. A mini galley and bunks were part of the hardware. Later models of the B-36 were referred to as "Featherweight" versions due to the removal of various defensive guns and other hardware. There were 3 Featherweight versions. A total of 384 B-36's were produced.
Even though it never dropped a bomb in anger,...truly it could be called the premier "aluminum overcast" bomber of all time.

 
I believe somewhere there is a photo of a B-36 crashed on approach into Boscombe Down. The pilot just missed the runway and landed across a road. Boscombe is one of the UK's biggest runways! Speaking from experience its really hard to miss (as a landmark anyway)
 
The one in Dallas Fort Worth was moved a while back. Moses knows the details on it.
 
There is also a RB-36 at the Castle museum in Merced, CA. It's in great shape and a real monster
Bob
 
I was stationed at Wright Patt when the "New" Air Force museum was built in the early 70's. The trivia about the B-36 was that the building was built around it. The airplane was too big to go through the hanger doors.

Glenn
 
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