| Tango01 | 06 Dec 2012 9:31 p.m. PST |
What a great plane.
" With a range greater than 9,700 km (6,000 mi) and a maximum payload of 33,000 kg (73,000 lb), the B-36 was the world's first manned bomber with an unrefueled intercontinental range. Until it was replaced by the jet powered Boeing B-52 Stratofortress which first became operational in 1955, the B-36 was the primary nuclear weapons delivery vehicle of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), and the B-36 set the standard for range and payload for subsequent US intercontinental bombers…"
From Wiki. Love this draws.
What an incredible thecnology for 1946! Anybody had this model in miniature? Amicalement
Armand |
| Dan Wideman II | 06 Dec 2012 11:14 p.m. PST |
I don't know about "miniature", but monogram used to make one in 1/72. It had a 2 or 3 FOOT wing span. |
| Mardaddy | 06 Dec 2012 11:37 p.m. PST |
I had that kit in 1981, built and painted it with very limited supplies. Don't recall whatever happened to it. The kit is still in production and available on eBay and such. BTW, 38in wingspan! |
| Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 07 Dec 2012 1:03 a.m. PST |
Your best find yet Armand! |
| GeoffQRF | 07 Dec 2012 3:39 a.m. PST |
I have the kit, up in the roof. Yep, it's biiiiiig beast…
6 turning and 4 burning…. YouTube link |
| skippy0001 | 07 Dec 2012 4:55 a.m. PST |
I have a HUGE book on this plane. Never fired a shot in anger. However, one of its toilets fell out of the plane and hit a house.
Don't forget it pioneered parasite fighters-F-85 Goblins. I believe they would attack in flights of four-three with nuclear bombs and one packed with EW gear and drones to ward off SAMs. Migs would still chew them up, I think, been wanting to game a '50's WWIII for a while. Thanks, have to dig the book out now. |
| taskforce58 | 07 Dec 2012 6:54 a.m. PST |
Fiddler's Green makes a paper model of the B-36. If I remember correctly FG's aircraft models are normally 1/60. It's going to require a small pile of card stock to print it all out! |
| Sergeant Paper | 07 Dec 2012 9:10 a.m. PST |
Fiddler's Green's B-36 is 17 pages and has a 40-inch wingspan. |
 FingerandToeGlenn  | 07 Dec 2012 10:47 a.m. PST |
When my Dad's crew (he was the flight engineer) flew their RB-36 to Davis Monthan from Ramey in Puerto Rico in 1959, they were told they never actually had a chance to get either the bomber or recon version over the target. Still, magnificent plane. When the first B-52 landed at Ramey, the families' main thought was "how small." I've seen my dad's plane land with none turnin' and four burnin'. It's kind of scary to see all six props feathered. The clock from his station sits on my desk, a constant reminder of a different age. |
| Tango01 | 07 Dec 2012 11:10 a.m. PST |
Many thanks for your guidance boys!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Cke1st | 07 Dec 2012 12:28 p.m. PST |
The prop engines were fire-prone (they weren't designed to be mounted backwards), so the "six turning and four burning" would often become "two turning, two burning, two smoking, two joking, and two unaccounted for, Sir." If they made a 1/48 model to go with all the other models I built in my teens, the wing span would have been close to five feet. And I thought my B-29 was big… |
| teenage visigoth | 07 Dec 2012 10:30 p.m. PST |
Waldo…get out of the landing gear. |
| chironex | 02 Jan 2013 12:12 a.m. PST |
I have the 1/144 from Special Hobby. !@$!#%^!$%!#$^%#^#^# it's big. As usual it is sitting around undone, along with everything else. |
