Perfectly safe. See, I'll whack it with this hammer...
...oops.
Posted on 11/28/2016 4:09:23 PM PST by BenLurkin
A metallic object discovered underwater off the coast of British Columbia and suspected of being a missing U.S. atomic bomb has now been identified as an industrial hunk of steel.
The Royal Canadian Navy used an underwater robot to check out the object, sitting on the ocean floor in about eight metres of water south of Prince Rupert.
Cmdr. Stephan Gresmak said military specialists determined the object was not an unexploded military munition. “It was safe and there was no danger,” said Gresmak who is with Joint Task Force Pacific.
“It was determined to be a metal part of a larger machine assembly and appears to be a piece of industrial equipment,” the Canadian Forces noted in a news release.
There was speculation the object, found by a scuba diver was either a Mark IV atomic bomb or part of the device lost in 1950. The warhead, which did not contain radioactive material, was jettisoned from a U.S. Air Force B-36 bomber after the plane caught fire.
The bomber crew parachuted from the burning aircraft; five were reported dead and 12 were rescued. The wreckage of the plane was later found on Mount Kologet in the BC interior, about 300 km northeast of where the crew bailed out.
The U.S. military later sent a team to recover equipment from the plane but the whereabouts of the atomic bomb has been the source of intense speculation and various theories over the decades.
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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.
I lived near there when the B-52’s were stationed there.
When they took off, a bomb could have detonated 10 feet from you and you would not have heard it.
by the way, I thought the B-36 had 6 propeller, and 4 jet engines. The ones in the photo have no jet engines.
think that is a B-47, but just a guess.
Cmdr. Stephan Gresmak said military specialists determined the object was not an unexploded military munition. “It was safe and there was no danger,” said Gresmak who is with Joint Task Force Pacific.
“It was determined to be a weather balloon...”
Not a B-47.
I’m guessing an early model C-124 (Globemaster). Nose on the later models is different.
That’s an early one; the later ones definitely had four jets added.
I believe that's a C-124 Globemaster.
No, I think FreedomPoster nailed it with the C-74.
The B-47 was a 6 engined jet, not a 4 engine prop plane.
We lived directly across the lake from the end of the runway at Carswell. When the B-36s took off and passed over us, the vibration would shake plates out of the kitchen cabinets.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
“So it was a non-nuclear nuke?”
Something on the order of barbless barbed wire ranchers use for horses.
I looked at the B-47 first, too, because of the bubble canopy on top of the fuselage. Everything else was wrong, though.
Yeah, C-74.
[We lived directly across the lake from the end of the runway at Carswell. When the B-36s took off and passed over us, the vibration would shake plates out of the kitchen cabinets. ]
The sound of freedom. LOL
Thank you! You are correct. A heavy lift transports with the “bubble” type cockpit is/was unusual. According to Wiki, Douglas didn’t make very many.
Thanks again for searching.
Thanks guys! Freedomposter found it....in case you missed the post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-74_Globemaster
Perfectly safe. See, I'll whack it with this hammer...
...oops.
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.
RE that water spout. In the lower right corner is a dark shape. That is a huge CV standing on its bow straight up.
It was the "bubble" canopy that threw me, too. Until seeing those photos, I thought all our cargo planes either had slanted windshields like the C-47 or the flush panes like the C-46...
I’d never even heard of a C74. Learn something new everyday!
Thanks!
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