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[Photon440]

Just to give an idea of the flying office the B-36 cockpit really was...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VGsRNHn8d...DHw/e5pd9PSPmY4/s1600/B36-F-FORWARD003[r].jpg

 

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[DeltaV]

Turning six, burning four

 

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part of what the pilots see in the B-36

This is the Flight Engineer's Station

Sixaturnin and Four Burnin....

 

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Geez those are nuts how do have time to look out?

 

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The Flight Engineer didn't...lots of other eyes to look out.

 

[Photon440]

The term 'six turning and four burning' was somewhat optimistic. Frequently, one or more of the six P&W Wasp R-4360 radials had shut down; carb icing problems led to overheating and fires. The joke was "two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking and two more unaccounted for". If needed, there were actually catwalks in the wings to allow engine service and plug changes in flight - the high lead content in the 145 octane fuel caused constant fouling. Unfortunately for the mechanic, there were 336 spark plugs (56 per engine) in that plane!

As cantankerous as the plane was, it was the only one in the Air Force arsenal capable of carrying the 42,000 pound Mark 17 hydrogen bomb until the B-52 replaced it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_17_nuclear_bomb

 

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They show Harry Morgan in Strategic Air Command coming out of the wing.

 

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And James Stewart actually flew them.

 

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Let's not forget the NB-36

 

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My family and I need to go see this 'ol gal again one day. It's great to see her in such a fine condition after languishing for so long outside the gates of AF Plant #4. God bless those folks at Pima for rescuing and restoring her.

Convair B-36J-10-CF 52-2827 at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona. (B-36 Peacemaker Museum)

Convair B-36J-75-CF Peacemaker, 52-2827, the last B-36 built. (U.S. Air Force)

Source:
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/52-2827/

 

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