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Now this is a Project

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JoeW

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<style></style> My cousen is a retired Miss. Air guard pilot. He sent this to me. :applause:

Subject: Convair B-36J Peacemaker Restoration....

So you think you have completed large restoration projects before...huh. Start at the bottom and scroll up.


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Wow.... Great job restoring aircraft.... Awesome..... Awesome... Awesome...... :salute:
 
Sure makes painting a plane in Photoshop seem like child's play in comparison.

OBIO
 
It's well worth the trip to Dayton Ohio and visit the USAF Museum to check out this baby. The size is humbling. I can only imagine what it sounded and felt like when a fleet of these 'Peacemakers' flew overheard.
 
Dude,....I kinda' doubt it. It would run into the millions to get it flyable. If you want a good study of it,....take out the movie 'Strategic Air Command' starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allison. (1955)
 
I actually saw this bird when I visited the PASM last year. Unfortunately, it was a rainy day, and of course they wouldn't let us into the restoration yard. At the time it was in big sections. Looks like I'll have to hop down there real soon to take some photos.
 
"Honey, I'll be back in a while --
going to do some painting."

and that was the last we heard from him for over . . . .
 
If it were to be fully restored, can you imagine what it would cost per hour to fly it? :isadizzy:
 
In the article they say that they only have one engine. The other props are held in place with a bracket.
 
It was great to watch this aircraft get refurbished. The Pima museum is a static museum only - and in recent years it has been nice to see the museum bring inside some of its collection which has stood the outside elements for many years. They get by in most part due to volunteer effort, and do as much as they can with very limited resources - the restoration of their P-51 is quite evident of this, where the majority of the cockpit, gun bays, etc., is imitation instead of reproduction/restoration as in an operating aircraft.

Not only would the Air Force not allow a B-36 to be flying, the EPA would probably have the biggest fit of their lives. :d

Not withstanding the enormous cost to operate it, which would even trump the millions invested in that UK-based Vulcan which has flown at various air shows over the past two years.
 
WOW! It's not the first plane I worked on after getting out of tech school, but it's the first bomber. I remember a story that circulated then around the base. It seems a flight crew were practicing low level under the radar flying and using a rail road line for navigation when they buzzed a work crew on the line out in the middle of nowhere. Can you imagine what them poor souls thought and felt when they heard and saw that huge plane bearing down on them. :monkies:
 
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