Posted on 05/20/2005 7:03:17 PM PDT by AZHua87
One pilot likened it to "sitting on your front porch and flying your house around."
Another crew member called it "a horrible, lazy beast to fly."
Janet Hess has another view of the B-36 - one admittedly gained at ground level.
"I loved that plane," says Hess, who did modification work on the bomber during the early '50s.
Designed to fly long distances at high altitudes and drop nuclear payloads, the huge, 10-engine plane never did go to war.
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The Spruce Goose in Oregon is pretty cool, too.
Ed
The Seattle museum has an early SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, among other interesting exibits.
I don't know if Fifi (Confederate Air Force B-29) is still flying, but that bird takes a bit of tuning. Even more so for a B-36.
So it never got ordered to deliver its payload - in SAC, that's a successful mission.
IMHO, the two most esthetically beautiful bombers the USAF ever had were also, oddly enough, next to useless in terms of mission...the B-58 Hustler and the B-47...
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