B-36 question

[Robbie Roberts]

At the end of the war my Grandparents had a house at the end of runway 7 that was NAS Akron. Growing up, my Grandma said between the Corsairs and the B-36's going over its a wonder they had any dishes to eat off of and the house just shook. My Grandfather was an airplane nut and knew they were 36's...even my dad said he would always run outside to watch the contrails rumble by. Would have been awesome to see.

jim

That sounds like a great name for a book on the B-36- "Rumbling Contrails"

I now claim royalties... Just a bit, not all- I only came up with the title...

Robbie

[WacoOne]

I live about 30 miles from Eglin AFB, Fla. Back in the mid '50s when I was a teenager it was fairly common to see them fly over. I was already an airplane nut by then and when I heard that beautiful throbbing I always ran outside to watch them. I've always remembered and loved that sound. Come to think of it, I still run outside to watch when I hear an airplane sound!

Bill

[Clifford Bossie]

My grandparents lived in El Paso, Texas, and we would go there for vacations and in between my Dad's Navy duty stations. Biggs AFB there had B-36s so we would see them and hear them go over the house. Totally distinctive sound unlike any other aircraft -- although I have thought that the sound of a C-124 (four R-4360s) was slightly reminscent.

Being to young to have seen B-36s based at Biggs I have had to be content looking at museum aircraft. There is still B-36 wreckage on the west side of the Franklin Mountains that I have visited several times. A sad note in B-36 history.

http://www.angelfire.com/dc/jinxx1/B36C ... Crash.html

[Chris Brame]

Grandma said between the Corsairs and the B-36's going over its a wonder they had any dishes to eat off of...

So that's why Melmac dishware became popular in the '50s - even a passing B-36 wouldn't break that stuff

Has anyone seen Strategic Air Command in a theater with a good sound system? That's as close as we're going to get nowadays...