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Convair B-36 (Read 933 times)

Mar 14^th, 2006 at 4:42am

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Can someone tell more about Convair B-36?

Sounds quite an interesting and weird plane. 10 engines - 4 jets and 6 propellers. Propellers pushing at the trailing edge - with engines designed to operate in the other direction. The biggest wheels ever (the later planes have had bogies with more numerous and smaller wheels).

What is a B-36 cockpit like, and how is it simulated?

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Reply #1 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 7:40am

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Not all B-36's had the jet engines. The jet engines were introduced only with the B-36D.

Have a look at these websites:

http://www.cowtown.net/proweb/B36_Home.htm

http://www.air-and-space.com/b-36%20variants.htm

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b3-75.htm

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Reply #2 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 10:32am

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Can someone tell more about Convair B-36?

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Reply #3 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 7:13pm

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IT's also the only airplane I've seen that was tested and flown with caterpillar-type (treads) landing gear...

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Reply #4 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 7:38pm

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IT's also the only airplane I've seen that was tested and flown with caterpillar-type (treads) landing gear...

Photos here. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b3-69.htm

Apparently this idea was tried with various types including the P-40, C-82 & B-50.

If you want to see good colour footage of the B-36 try & get hold of the film Strategic Air Command.

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Reply #5 - Apr 1^st, 2006 at 9:48pm

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If you can get a hold of it, watch the excellent Jimmy Stewart movie: Strategic Air Command. It has some wonderful sequences of the aircraft in it.

Also, it seems to me that all the previous B-36 models were upgraded to D's with the addition of the turbine engines. Am I correct in saying that?

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