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Anybody out there know how many B-36 Peacemakers are still in existence?

Thanks,
Dave

The Soplata wreck isn't on the registry.

Nice B-36 resource

http://www.air-and-space.com/peacemkr.htm

regards,

t~

Does anyone know for sure what percentage of a B-36 Peacemaker is up there at Walter's place?

Here's is a feature on http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com about Walter's place. It has a couple of shots of the B-36.

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Fea1/101-200/Fea182_Walters-Farm_Williams/part1/Fea182.htm

Shay
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In Albuquerque, the National Atomic Museum reportedly had a B-36 on display.

The museum moved from the old location in the Kirtland AFB area, to a new site near downtown ABQ; but I have visited the new location and the area is way too smal to contain a B-36, which I did not see.

So, was there a B-36 at Kirtland? If so, where is it now? Was it scrapped? Saved?

Saludos,


Tulio

Thank you gentlemen, I appreciate the information. Wouldn't it be cool to see one of those old beasts fly?
Walter Soplata's farm is really something else.

Dave Armstrong

I've never seen a B-36 at Kirtland. The B-29 was is disgraceful condition the last time I was there.......

Try these links. The first one list the five locations. The others havesome interesting photos.
Don

http://www.b-36.net/

http://pages.nyu.edu/~jh15/b-36.html

http://pages.cthome.net/B36/Movie.html

http://pages.cthome.net/B36/492.html

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Shay--

I'd say about half the YB-36/RB-36E airframe is at Newbury, consisting of the forward half of the fuselage and much of both wings. IIRC Walt also got two of the engines. This Peacemaker, one of the prototypes, had been converted to RB-36E standard, then was retired and placed on outdoor display at USAFM. When the (then) new AFM building was erected at the end of the sixties, a B-36J, in much better condition than the YB/RB already at Wright-Pat, was flown in to go on indoor show in the new hall. The redundant, and by now dilapidated, YB/RB was sold for scrap about 1971 and Walt got most of the remains from the metals man. A book could probably be written about the Soplatas' recovery of just that one hulk!

A bit more than a decade later the identical thing happened to USAFM's global record flight B-52B...but Walt (sensibly) only took on the cockpit section of that one. A B-52D in fine shape is inside one of the newer halls at what is now NMUSAF. Certainly hope the D isn't disposed of when the apparently near-immortal H-models are finally retired!

Oh, and an immaculate RB-47 is now indoors at NMUSAF...the longterm outdoor display B-47E being parked, last I saw it, pretty much right where the B-52B last sat before meeting its demise, out on the old Wright Field flightline near the Annex. Anyone heard anything on the fate of that Stratojet...?

S.

It was still sitting there as of last Nov.........

Still there as of this morning.

Shay
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There she is being kept company by 3 F-4 Phantoms



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Oh, and an immaculate RB-47 is now indoors at NMUSAF

It is immaculate, I was allowed to sit in the cockpit, boy is it nice.

BTW Has anyone written about Mr. Soplata? His story should be well documented before he leaves us. Someone should go out there and pick his brain for posterity.

Is that an ABCCC capsule (the green box shape) just to the right of the
F-4 on the right?

I dunno, you tell me. Of coarse it would help a bit if I knew what a ABCCC capsule was to start with.



It is possible that it is shipping the disassembled THOR missle that is in front of the restoration facility. Sorry I didn't take a direct photo of the parts.



What does the acronym ABCCC stand for?

Shay
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