Warbird Information Exchange

I never knew they built this. Every days a school day

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If the first casualty of war is innocence, the second is sobriety - Hawkeye.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato.
Lies get halfway round the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on - Churchill
If you are going through he11 - keep going - Churchill

Aw shucks...now I gotta go and change my name again...8burnin0turnin Lovely photo...thanx for posting it

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Demand my respect and never gain it. -Me

...just another plane dreamer.

Convair's attempt to win out over the B-52.
It's from the "you can't just sweep wings with the same airfoil and add all jets and expect it to be a great aircraft," school of aircraft design!
Jerry

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Except for the "bubble" canopy, it looks real slick!

Convair built two of them, both converted from B-36F airframes taken off the assembly line. The one in this photo flew for a little while, the second one never got engines. Both were scrapped at Fort Worth after sitting in the dump on the north end of the plant for a time.

Scott

I read somewhere it was about 100 mph slower than the B-52.???

By the way, the loading pit for the nuclear reactor is still visible on the very for north end of the old Convair ramp in Ft. Worth. It's been filled in and it is used for misc. storage. It's quite visible on short final.

Yup, it was darned slow. 500 knots max (I think).

Speaking of the nuclear reactor NB-36, didn't the NRC bury the major portions of the airframe out in Nevada? That would be a great restoration thread for WIX, huh!?

Scott

Could be the worlds first glow in the dark warbird!!!

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If the first casualty of war is innocence, the second is sobriety - Hawkeye.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato.
Lies get halfway round the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on - Churchill
If you are going through he11 - keep going - Churchill

Yes, it might be a little warm still, but imagine the paperwork involved in digging the pieces up! While we're on the subject of radioactive B-36s, did you know that the Air Force and Convair had to scrap a B-36 that was part of the atomic/hydrogen bomb tests out in the Pacific? The shock wave damaged and removed some access panels and did quite a lot of structural mayhem. The airplane was patched up, ferried back to Carswell, surveyed, and used for spare parts as the cost to repair was too great.

Scott

it was a noble, but last ditch effort to secure a contract. can some math wizz calculate that contract offer in today's finances / values / bang for the buck?? you could wipe your keester with the u.s. buck today on the world market!!

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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!!

What's up with the UFO in the upper right of the pic?

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

That picture was taken at Edwards during Air Force trials, so UFO traffic would be standard operating procedure, correct?