And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was 8 or 9 when I heard one of these fly over while I was in a Green Frog Grocery Store in Vallejo, CA. I thought that a whole flight of bombers was going by. I was not disappointed to see only one B-36. It was huge and actually the building was vibrating from the noise. Of course my Dad told me what it was and explained that it was probably the last one I would ever see.
As a kid in the 50's at Gen. LeMay's SAC HQ in Omaha I remember these beasts were everywhere. They were social birds and flew in flocks. The roar was spine-tingling. I think they were called "Flying Cigars". Nowadays the orange identifies a drone.
I grew up in San Antonio, Tx. These B-36s would fly over my house many times. I always liked the way the windows and doors shook and the loud drone from their engines you could hear long before you ever saw them. They were in a landing pattern so they came over real low.
I was 8 or 9 when I heard one of these fly over while I was in a Green Frog Grocery Store in Vallejo, CA. I thought that a whole flight of bombers was going by. I was not disappointed to see only one B-36. It was huge and actually the building was vibrating from the noise. Of course my Dad told me what it was and explained that it was probably the last one I would ever see.
ReplyDeleteCool memory
DeleteThey look like really big targets.
ReplyDeleteThey look Russian because the Russians never had an original aircraft design. They stole this design too and it became the Bear.
ReplyDeleteYep, the resemblance is uncanny.
DeleteWhen visiting the farm in Turlock in the early '50s, we'd see them flying out of Castle AFB.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid in the 50's at Gen. LeMay's SAC HQ in Omaha I remember these beasts were everywhere. They were social birds and flew in flocks. The roar was spine-tingling. I think they were called "Flying Cigars". Nowadays the orange identifies a drone.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in San Antonio, Tx. These B-36s would fly over my house many times. I always liked the way the windows and doors shook and the loud drone from their engines you could hear long before you ever saw them. They were in a landing pattern so they came over real low.
ReplyDeleteIt must be an early version, later models had 4 jets added outboard of the props. "6 turnin' and 4 burnin'".
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