| Tango01 | 28 May 2012 1:07 p.m. PST |
Beautifull airplane from 1950.
Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| skippy0001 | 28 May 2012 1:42 p.m. PST |
AKA-'The Aluminem Overcast'. Never fired a shot in anger. Great for what-if campaigns. I have AH's B-17 game and I always wanted to do a variant for this aircraft.
Thanks. |
| Darby E | 28 May 2012 1:57 p.m. PST |
A friend's father was at Carswell AFB when a tornado trashed a bunch of them parked on the ramp. They seem so massive that the pictures just boggle the mind to see them tossed around. |
| chriskrum | 28 May 2012 2:47 p.m. PST |
The plane was, to put it mildly, a bit of a boondoggle. It was famous for its engine fires, flying like a pig, and the crews suspected, rightly, that they weren't fast escape the blast area of the weapons they were supposed to carry. |
| CorroPredo | 28 May 2012 5:44 p.m. PST |
Carswell had a small museum with the B 36 and the casing from its hydrogen bomb. Also had a B-52 and I think a B-58. Cool stuff, unfortunately I think it is gone now. |
| svsavory | 28 May 2012 7:14 p.m. PST |
Here's the B-36J at the National Museum of the USAF.
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| svsavory | 28 May 2012 7:21 p.m. PST |
A B-36B wearing the same colors as in the poster above.
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| Kaoschallenged | 28 May 2012 9:08 p.m. PST |
I love this movie, Six Turnin and Four Burnin
link Robert |
 Saginaw  | 28 May 2012 10:29 p.m. PST |
I'm assuming that the red markings on the B-36 Peacemakers were assigned to bomber wings stationed in the Arctic, since the P-80 (later F-80) Shooting Stars in the photo and graphic below wore the same markings and are identified as being from an Arctic unit as well:
Thanks, Armand!  |
| Kaoschallenged | 28 May 2012 11:00 p.m. PST |
Not sure how the wrong link got posted. Here is the one that I wanted to post, Six Turnin and Four Burnin
YouTube link A former uncle of mine was a B-36 crew member. Robert |
 FingerAndToeModels  | 29 May 2012 2:02 a.m. PST |
My dad was a flight engineer on B36s. The thing was so huge that when I saw the first B52 arrive at Ramey AB in Puerto Rico, my first thought was how small it was. Once when the bombers were returning from a forward deployment to Morocco, one B36 landed with only his four jets still working--a reminder why flight crew families turn their backs when the planes take off and land. |
| Patrick R | 29 May 2012 2:59 a.m. PST |
They looked at getting one flying again some years ago. Once they realized how much money, time and effort it would take they quietly backed off. |
| Old Slow Trot | 29 May 2012 6:50 a.m. PST |
A very beautiful piece of aircraft. |
| Klebert L Hall | 29 May 2012 7:46 a.m. PST |
and the crews suspected, rightly, that they weren't fast escape the blast area of the weapons they were supposed to carry. As if that mattered for their mission tasking.
-Kle. |
| FingerAndToeModels | 29 May 2012 7:53 a.m. PST |
They were also told as the last ones were retiring that the new Migs could knock them down. Missions were so long the crew were provided little white pills to keep them awake. It wasn't until my dad retired many years later that the USAF admitted the pills were amphetamines. One other memory of B36 days was the little black, round dosimeter he wore around his neck. It was handed in periodically to the flight surgeon to check for radiation dosage. The flight engineer's clock from my Dad's B36 sits on my desk. He retrieved it when they delivered the old girl to the Boneyard at DM. |
| Tango01 | 29 May 2012 10:31 a.m. PST |
Glad you had enjoy it boys!. Amicalement
Armand |
