[AZHua87]

B-36 Bombers.

[TADSLOS]

B-36 BUMP!!

[TMSuchman]

This is a BIG FREAKING airplane bump!

[alfa6]

A couple of pics of the Magnesium Overcast for ya

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[TADSLOS]

[clintonh8r]

I lived near Carswell AFB for a while during my early childhood. I can still remember these monsters starting up and taking off over our house. The ground shook.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Every so often on the AMC Movie Channel they run Jimmy Stewart's propaganda film for the Air Force in the 1950's, "Strategic Air Command". Not a bad picture and this plane was featured in the film, this was before the arrival of the B-52, which will be around another 40 years as the workhorse of the Air Force.
The only thing I really hate about that movie in the portrayal by June Allyson as Stewart's whinny, immature wife. Otherwise if nothing else is on of interest I will watch it.
By the way that actor playing the General Curtis LeMay character is great & a hoot to watch, General LeMay was know as "The Great White Father" to the Air Force guys and made SAC what it was.

[Armigerous]

A good pilot on a B-36 knew how to lean out the fuel mixture to maximize range and could literally make those engines sing(6 turning,4 burning). During one endurance test, the USAF stocked up a B-36 with rations,coffee etc and had it flying around the Arctic Circle while being refuled by KC-97 tankers flying out of Thule AFB,Greenland and Eilesen AFB,Alaska. That plane stayed up for an entire week and as far as I know that record stands to this day.

[RAY]

I went to college with a vet who was a B36 crewman. If I remember correctly they could patrol during each flight for over a full day.

[omni-scientist]

I remember as a kid growing up in Miami (near Homestead AFB) during the 50's, and hearing the occasional B-36 fly over. I could always tell by the deep, rumbling drone of the engines what it was, and I would run outside, look up to see the unmistakable outline of this huge flying behemoth overhead.

[Law is not justice but process]

Well, that's it. I guess I will have to spend my next vacation in Tuscon. My father was a 20 year Air Force Sergeant and I was raised on stories of the old USAF planes: the shakey, the flying boxcar, the super connie, etc.. The B-36 was king of them all. I have to see it. It is a legend.

[AlaskaErik]

Interesting Cold War relic.

[MrStumpy]

A great informative book on the b36 is called "magnesium overcast" A b 29 would almost fit under the wing of this magnificent beast in all its variants. There is even a list of each airframe produced, when built, modifications, and final disposition.

This Aircraft fought well in the Cold War.......we are still here...right!

Stumpy

[hoagy62]

My uncle was a crew chief on the -36 at fairchild AFB in Spokane. Met his future wife (my aunt, a high school cheerleader)while there.

he said the wing roots were so big you could stand up in them. I want to see one someday.

[struwwelpeter]

During my 'zoomie' days there was a song about the B-36. It took quite a lot of booze to get the old timers to sing it, and it sounded like that 'Glory Glory Hallelujah' song. The only part I remember was:

The B-36 flies 10 thousand miles
The B-36 flies 10 thousand miles
The B-36 flies 10 thousand miles
But it drops a teeny-weeny little bomb!