Warbird Information Exchange

Several months ago I promised some cockpit shots pf the B-36 at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson. Here ya go (unless I mess it up somehow). Also a few other interesting shots. A HUGE thanks should go to Scott Marchand and the crew at Pima for allowing us CAFers to crawl around their planes. They certainly didn't have to but were kind enough to accomodate us. If you get out to Tucson(in the Winter) make sure you stop in and check out the place. GREAT STUFF!!!!!



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I'd hate to be that radio operator!

wow, those are incredible shots... the only color shots I've ever seen
of a b36 on the inside.. great job, thank you ever so much for posting...
I have a couple of old timer friends that will love to see these.
I'm rather jealous that you got to go inside... that musta cost you a
case of beer or something... ..

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The last B-36 built...The City of Ft. Worth, looks great inside and out thanks to the volunteers from around the DFW area and especially those from Convair, the 7th Bomb Wing, B-36 Association, Lockheed Martin, retired military personnel and civilian aviation enthusiasts who invested over 40,000 man-hours in the restoration.

It is a damed shame that this area with it's million plus people could not build a home for her.

thanks for posting the pics. its too bad she could not stay in texas

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AWESOME!!!!

Thank you for sharing.

Saludos,


Tulio

Great shots! Thanks for sharing them. When's this beast gonna fly again? Ever??

Dave

It's forever ground bound. I can't even begin to imagine what it might cost to make flyable. By the way, sorry about the couple of sideways pics.

Now that's an engineers panel. I wonder if anyone ever flew one without an engineer?

ditto....... 1st color interior shots i've seen & very detailed!! great & thanks!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

The Hurricane was the one that used to be on display at Cavanaugh, and was owned by RRS Aviation who recently sold it to Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation (MARC).:

http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/Ai ... Page1.html

They weren't designed to fly without an FE as he ran the engines. Makes me want to leave all of this(Maine) and move to Pima, just so I can rub up against it!

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By coincidence we in the UK today, and in competition with the Open Golf on BBC TV, were treated to 'Strategic Air Command'. Lots of superb B-36 internal and aerial shots together with the B-47.

I guess it was the 'Top Gun' of its decade - the 1950's.

PeterA

Very impressive pictures,especially of the cockpit area.I'm sure that everybody is aware that CD copies of flight manuals of numerous interesting aircraft (including the B-36) are available through www.eflightmanuals.com.

I have bought a number of them,usually for $17.95 each.The quality is excellent,although the anti-piracy secure pdf reader needed to view them is sort of a pain.I keep a copy of the CD version of a DC-7 fight manual on both of my laptops for reference.

Its for an Eastern Airlines DC-7B and I'm flying a United Airlines DC-7,but its good enough for most items and as a supplement the F.A.A. approved manual that we always carry. The Eastern manual has a lot of maintenance oriented information,presumably for the flight engineer,that isn't included in the Douglas or United manuals.

I didn't realize that I was creating a hyperlink in my last post.The following should work: http://www.eflightmanuals.com/