Re: (O/T)B-36 peacemaker largest bomber made.

Posted by RusselAZ on January 30, 2005 at 10:29:39 from (67.136.103.236):

In Reply to: Re: (O/T)B-36 peacemaker largest bomber made. posted by txblu on January 30, 2005 at 05:21:21:

THere is a Jimmy Stewart movies about SAC that has some great scenes of the B-36. In my years of growing up in western Kansas the farm was under the path of SAC when they were headed "north". These big dogs went over a lot lower than 35K feet! Sometimes, if I had known what a foot was I'd say they were 35 foot. Over the years it was like watching history. The B-36, the B-47, the B-52 and the B-58 hustler all could scare the crap out of you. I lost count of the times that I clutched a tractor or combine or car from the big jets. The first thing you heard was this gawd awful high pitched scream followed by the explosion and roar. I suppose they still do it with the B-1 as I was on the interstate 80 in western Nebraska once and one went over about 300 feet up. I had a B-52 pilot wave at me once when I was on the farm. Northeast corner of Norton county in the northcentral part of Kansas about 5 miles from the Nebraska state line.

A couple of interesting side notes about the B-36. One is the interstate hiway system was designed with a straight mile of roadway in every five. Reason?; Landing strips for airplanes and were built to handle the lb per foot of the B-36. When it was an active airplane it couldn't land many places and was pretty committed to getting to where it was suppose to go to be able to land. The second is in the 50's a tornado hit the Air Force base in Texas where many of the B-36's were parked. Many were destroyed and beings the B-47 was operational and the B-52 was close to being this started the scrapping process.

Follow Ups:

• Re: (O/T)B-36 peacemaker largest bomber made. Dave (IL) 06:46:15 01/31/05 (0)
• Re: (O/T)B-36 peacemaker largest bomber made. txblu 20:36:48 01/30/05 (0)

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