"Inside the B-36" Topic

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Tango01	05 Mar 2012 12:50 p.m. PST
Beautifull plane. Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement Armand
Mikhail Lerementov	05 Mar 2012 12:51 p.m. PST
Is there a link?
Tango01	05 Mar 2012 1:06 p.m. PST
Oh!. Yes… I forgot it. link Sorry for that. Amicalement Armand
elsyrsyn	05 Mar 2012 1:16 p.m. PST
Nice and roomy inside (at least compared to the B-17 and B-24 I once toured). Doug
Who asked this joker	05 Mar 2012 1:48 p.m. PST
Nice and roomy inside (at least compared to the B-17 and B-24 I once toured). Indeed! Even worse in a B-25. If you were a bombardier, you had to crawl under the pilots seat on your belly to get to the front and back. If the plane took a hit, you probably were not getting out. The B-36 is a HUGE improvement over that!
BW1959	05 Mar 2012 2:21 p.m. PST
link We have a nice one in Dayton at the AF Museum
Virtualscratchbuilder	05 Mar 2012 2:45 p.m. PST
There is a fascinating (to me anyway) website somewhere – sorry cannot remember – that details the loss and mishap records of these aircraft. One was even accidentally rammed and destroyed by a hot-dogging P-51.
Mardaddy	05 Mar 2012 3:41 p.m. PST
Back around 1980 or so I had an old Monogram 1/72 kit of this mamma-jamma. Even at that scale it was a monster!
FingerandToeGlenn	05 Mar 2012 6:22 p.m. PST
My dad was flight engineer on one, so I had a lot of fun crawling around them. The best was the little trolly/tunnel to get from the front to the back of the plane. The B36 is so big my first impression of a B52 was that it was so small.
Saginaw	06 Mar 2012 12:09 a.m. PST
I'm going to guess that most everyone here has seen the 1955 film 'Strategic Air Command', which showcased a B-36 Peacemaker in action. The movie was filmed right here in Fort Worth, at Carswell AFB, when it was a 24/7 SAC base. The sound of one going overhead is unforgettable! Also of note is an incident when a tornado ripped through a parked flight line of B-36s at Carswell. More details can be found at the following link: link President Theodore Roosevelt would've undoubtedly been impressed with this "big stick"!