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 remember the sound as they flew over our house when I was a kid. Nothing like it. There is a B-36 at the Castle Air museum in Atwater, Ca. You can walk up to it and stand under the wing, looking up at the bomb bay. Aluminum overcast.
Actually it's magnesium overcast. The pressurised bits were aluminium as magnesium doesn't like pressure cycles. A few other bits were as well, like the flaps which were changed to aluminium because the magnesium couldn't cope with the stress.
Some of the alloys contained strontium, an alpha emitter, and the structures had to be machined, maintained and scrapped carefully to avoid radioactive exposure.
Was at Chanute back in 1985/86 for tech school. Training was in the old hangers and the flightline was packed full of aircraft. So cool to see all of them.
Four R-4360 28 cylinder radials for a total of 112 cylinders and 224 spark plugs. It didn't use mechanically coupled power recovery turbines like the Wright 3350's on the Lockheed Constellation.
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ReplyDeleteI had a model of that plane as a kid until my thieving cousin managed to take that and all the old comic books on a visit.
ReplyDeleteI hope you made the bastard pay…
DeleteThey used to fly over my parent’s house when I was five. B-58s were also a common sight on the west side of Fort Worth.
ReplyDelete“Six turnin’ and four burnin’.”
ReplyDeleteI remember the sound as they flew over our house when I was a kid. Nothing like it. There is a B-36 at the Castle Air museum in Atwater, Ca. You can walk up to it and stand under the wing, looking up at the bomb bay.
ReplyDeleteAluminum overcast.
Actually it's magnesium overcast. The pressurised bits were aluminium as magnesium doesn't like pressure cycles. A few other bits were as well, like the flaps which were changed to aluminium because the magnesium couldn't cope with the stress.
DeleteSome of the alloys contained strontium, an alpha emitter, and the structures had to be machined, maintained and scrapped carefully to avoid radioactive exposure.
DeleteThere had one on display at Chanute AFB, it's big!
ReplyDeleteWas at Chanute back in 1985/86 for tech school. Training was in the old hangers and the flightline was packed full of aircraft. So cool to see all of them.
DeleteAccording to the internet, the B-36 is now at Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA.
DeleteThat thing is like SpaceX's Super Heavy rocket. So large it defies it's true size in photos.
ReplyDeleteThey should put a quarter on the ground next to the plane to give you that perspective.
DeleteFour R-4360 28 cylinder radials for a total of 112 cylinders and 224 spark plugs. It didn't use mechanically coupled power recovery turbines like the Wright 3350's on the Lockheed Constellation.
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