July 03, 2005

Sunday Aircraft Cheesecake (B-36 Peacemaker)

Made only in Texas.

Part prop, part jet.

All badass.

The B-36 Peacemaker:

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For an idea of just how frickin' big this plane was, check out this side-by-side photo, which makes the B-29 bomber look like a toy:

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(Image found here).

Neat story describing the experience of a low flyover.

Loads of interesting history here. (Double-take: Nuclear propulsion testbed?)

Even more history here.

Posted by: JohnL at 10:15 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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1 Wow. Atomic aircraft? And it looks like they got to the point of being able to do it in theory. Obviously those labs were run by "greys."

Posted by: owlish at July 04, 2005 10:07 PM (QqkkN)

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