As Europe becomes cold and dark, European vacations will become long overflights.
Add lots of windows and this baby could do the trick!
As Europe becomes cold and dark, European vacations will become long overflights.
Add lots of windows and this baby could do the trick!
Six turning and four burning!
The movie “Strategic Air Command” with Jimmy Stewart (aka Brig. Gen James M. Stewart USAFR) contains a lot of B-36 and B-47 airplane porn…
Bump for later
Stupid headline. Should have read “The B-36 Peacemaker was so AWESOME..”
I was raised in Ohio and still remember seeing them flying around out of the air bases there. You could always identify them by the roar of their props.
Back when Americans could accomplish anything...
I’m a model, you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah, on the catwalk On the catwalk,
yeah I shake my little tush on the catwalk
A Uncle was a crew chief on a B-36 back in the 1950s. He was stationed at Fairchild Air Force base or space near Spokane. It was where he met his wife, my aunt.
It said that the B36 was known as the “Jesus plane”. The reason they called it that is because the 1st time anyone ever saw one up close that’s exactly what they said.
I have two “connections” to the B-36:
In 7th and 8th grade (1953-1955), I lived in Lakeland, FL. As it turned out, Lakeland was in the landing pattern for MacDill AFB over in Tampa,
and B-36s routinely flew over Lakeland. Most all activity stopped as those behemoths “droned” overhead! Unmistakable sound!
In Sept. 1964, returning FRom a marvelous post-commissioning leave trip to Wausau, WI, I accidentally passed by the now defunct Chanute AFB.
There was a static display B-36 out by the main gate, and for some reason, the aircraft was open for casual inspection. I was able to inspect the cockpit,
forward crew area and bomb bay. It was, as you all know, enormous! I have no idea why the fence around the aircraft was open, nor do I have any idea
why access to the cockpit and bomb bays was available to passers-by. I have pictures of it, somewhere!
Anybody on this forum know the disposition of that “Peacemaker?”
Who imagined a ten engine aircraft would have ever been manufactured?
When I was four year old, we lived in a house for which the fence in the back yard was the perimeter fence for the airfield area of Carswell AFB.
When the B-36s took off, the ground shook.
Plus, the base had a construction project going to lengthen the runway, so there was constant bulldozer/scraper activity.
For a four-year-old kid, it was glorious.
Here are several photos.
B-17, B-29, B-36, B-52, B-58
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Carswell_Air_Force_Base
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