A B36 was on static display at Chanute AFB in Illinois when I was in tech school in 1973. Hugh plane. (This pic is not Chanute, BTW)
A B36 was on static display at Chanute AFB in Illinois when I was in tech school in 1973. Hugh plane. (This pic is not Chanute, BTW)
Just curious. Do you, or anyone on the thread know the designation of the airplane in the upper left of the picture?
I’ve never seen the type before.
Looks like that might be an early one, before the USAF revised the design and added the paired jet engines outboard of the pusher props. With the angle of the photo, it’s hard to tell for sure. Either way, it really dwarfs the B-29 - and it’s not a camera/distance perspective thing.
Ha! That big ol airplane was was still at Chanute AFB when I went to tech school in 1986. Had a cave man nose art painted on it.
There are only 4 B-36 examples left on display; at the AF Museum, the old Castle AFB, at Offut, and at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson.