Author Topic: B-36 (Read 364 times)

RAIDER14 · « **on:** November 07, 2005, 10:46:20 PM »

was reading about the B-36,cool stuff:aok

http://www.airbornegrafix.com/HistoricAircraft/ClassicAC/B36.htm

http://www.air-and-space.com/peacemkr.htm

they started design and production on the B-36 in the 40's to bad it never saw action in ww2 or the cold war or any other wars:aok

J_A_B · « **Reply #1 on:** November 07, 2005, 10:51:53 PM »

"to bad it never saw action in ww2 or the cold war or any other wars"

Be very happy that it never saw action.

J_A_B

Vulcan · « **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2005, 10:52:01 PM »

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B-36H serial number 51-5712 was modified as a nuclear-reactor testbed. The object of this particular conversion was to test the effects of
nuclear reactor radiation on instruments, equipment, and airframe and to study shielding methods.
A nuclear reactor (which did not actually power the aircraft) was mounted in the aft bomb bay. The crew was housed entirely in a modified
compartment in the fuselage nose section. The compartment was composed of lead and rubber, and entirely surrounded the crew.
The aircraft was redesignated NB-36H. It bore the name Crusader on the fuselage side. Its first flight was made on September 17, 1955.
Flying alongside the NB-36H on every one of its flights was a C-97 transport carrying a platoon of armed Marines
ready to parachute down and surround the test aircraft in case it crashed. A total of 47 flights were made up to March of 1957.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 07, 2005, 11:00:54 PM »

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Be very happy that it never saw action.

yeah good thing it didn't see action in the cold war becuase if it did there would be no aces high for any 1 to play today becuase if it was used that would have been only in all out nuclear warfare which would result in billions of lives lost

rpm · « **Reply #4 on:** November 07, 2005, 11:25:07 PM »

Carswell and The Last B-36 Carswell was designed for the B-36. It had the longest, heaviest, concrete runway at the time to handle the take-off load of the B-36.

Debonair · « **Reply #5 on:** November 07, 2005, 11:43:14 PM »

The transport version XC-99 was just as impressive.
747 capabilities of 400 passengers & 7000nm range in the 1940s, but at half the speed.
early experimental B-36 landing gear....

Simlar gear on a P-40

Wolfala · « **Reply #6 on:** November 07, 2005, 11:56:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan

If I remember correctly - the reactor was fired up at altitude - and the pod'd turbines designed by GE were dual fuel. They could burn fuel and when the reactor spooled up, switched over to a closed cycle loop and could run the turbines off the reactor via heat exchangers.

cpxxx · « **Reply #7 on:** November 08, 2005, 08:50:56 AM »

Saw 'Strategic Air Command' again recently. The B36 features heavily. The film is worth buying for those sequences alone.

Replicant · « **Reply #8 on:** November 08, 2005, 12:45:03 PM »

...and when compared to a B29!

Seagoon · « **Reply #9 on:** November 08, 2005, 01:34:41 PM »

Just be glad you don't have to try to shoot it down with .50 cal ammo in Aces High.

Now that would be the Uber Perk.

- SEAGOON