Warbird Information Exchange

Just go this in a forwarded e-mail, so I don't know who to give credit to on the original message.............


B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM, INC.
505 NW 38th Street Hangar 33 So.
Fort Worth, Texas 76106
(817) 244-9090
www.B-36peacemakermuseum.org



INFORMATION NOTICE



Dear Aviation History Fans

A television video documentary LOST NUKE, about the world's first accidental loss of an atomic weapon, will be shown in the USA on Tuesday 24 February 2009 at 21:00 (9pm) EST, 8pm Central time, on the National Geographic cable channel.

The one hour show was originally produced and aired only in Canada by the Canadian Discovery Channel but has now been obtained and remade by the National Geographic Channel in Washington DC.

The Canadian version, purported to be an accurate documentary of the 13 February 1950 crash in British Columbia of a Fort Worth based B-36 bomber, was skewed by its authors into an abstract critique of the U. S. Air Force, its flight crews, and our government. Hopefully the National Geographic remake adheres to the historic record.

Interior scenes of the doomed bomber were filmed in Fort Worth inside the last B-36 built here before the aircraft was moved to Tucson, AZ.

It will also be shown on:
Tuesday 24 Feb at 21:00 (9 pm)
Wednesday 25 Feb at 00:00 (12 am)
Sunday 1 March at 11:00 (11 am)
Tuesday 3 March at 17:00 (5 pm)
(All times are Eastern Time)

You can check the schedule here:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/tv-schedule

*MISSING PHOTO*

Actors preparing for filming inside the Last B-36 fuselage at Lockheed Fort Worth on 24 February 2004

I saw the last half of this last night. It was OK but spent a lot of time on the "theories" of a couple of people who don't believe the official version of events. The computer effects were pretty good and there were a couple of good interview segments with the one survivor who is still alive.

James

Thanks for the heads up Gary!

-Derek

If you can put up with the theories, it's well worth a watch, particularly given that the camera crew goes to the actual crash site.

It was better than an episode of Great Planes, I'll say that.

Ken

_________________
"Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves."

Here is a nice article about this accident with further links embedded in the story: http://www.air-and-space.com/b-36%20wrecks.htm#44-92075

Scott