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Much was made of the fact that the wing of the B-36 Peacemaker was deep enough to allow engineers to enter it and maintain the engines in flight. Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 Peacemaker was to be primarily a ‘10,000-mile bomber’ with heavy defensive armament, six engines and a performance that would prevent interception by fighters. It was one of the first aircraft to use substantial amounts of magnesium in its structure, leading to the bomber’s ‘Magnesium Overcast’ nickname. It earned many superlatives due to...

In 1986, the Albuquerque Journal received documents from an FOIA request. To their surprise, the Air Force had kept a nuclear accident secret for 29 years. The story of how a B-36 bomber dropped the biggest bomb the United States ever made on New Mexico deserves to be remembered. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0gRHgwSGhE

[VIDEO] This model is a B 36 b early model and did not have jets was made by Carl Bachhuber . It has a 19 foot wing span and is powered by 6 G-26' s great airplane and flight for more info on it check out carls website. http://carlb-rcplanes.com/

Interesting little documentary/training film about The XF-85 Goblin. The Goblin was a tiny little fighter jet prototype designed to be a "parasite fighter", carried by the bomber it was supposed to protect...

One pilot likened it to "sitting on your front porch and flying your house around." Another crew member called it "a horrible, lazy beast to fly." Janet Hess has another view of the B-36 - one admittedly gained at ground level. "I loved that plane," says Hess, who did modification work on the bomber during the early '50s. Designed to fly long distances at high altitudes and drop nuclear payloads, the huge, 10-engine plane never did go to war.

5/19/2005 - FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFPN) -- Five numbers painted on the tail of a local parade’s float will pass by thousands of people, and they may not see what is between them. A string of numbers can represent anything from how much money someone has in his or her bank account, to phone numbers or even ZIP codes. 71424 represents the life and love of a father. Capt. Richard Doughty originally flew B-36 Peacemakers before becoming a navigator on KC-135 Stratotankers at Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas, in the late 1960s. In May 1966 he had many...

Student Pilot Crashes Into Police Station Sat, 24 Jan '04 Jail Evacuated, Pilot Seriously Hurt A student pilot practicing touch-and-goes in Farmington (NM) apparently lost power Thursday night, causing his plane to pile into a police building near Four Corners Regional Airport. The student-pilot, who's not yet been identified, was seriously injured, according to local authorities. "I was pulling into the back entrance of the police department when a plane was on coming on a northwestern approach to the airport and appeared to have lost power and fell straight into the north end of the building of the Farmington...