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Description
| Manufacturer: | Convair | |
| Base model: | B-36 | |
| Designation: | B-36 | |
| Version: | J | |
| Nickname: | Peacemaker | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1924-Present | |
| Basic role: | Bomber | |
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Specifications
| Length: | 162' 1" | 49.4 m | |
| Height: | 46' 9" | 14.2 m | |
| Wingspan: | 230' | 70.1 m | |
| Wingarea: | 4,772.0 sq ft | 443.2 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 171,035 lb | 77,566 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 410,000 lb | 185,941 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 6 | ||
| Powerplant: | Pratt & Whitney R-4360-53 (& 4 5,200Lb J47-GE-19) | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 3800 | ||
Performance
| Range: | 6,800 miles | 10,950 km | |
| Cruise Speed: | 391 mph | 370 km/h | 200 kt |
| Max Speed: | 411 mph | 661 km/h | 357 kt |
| Climb: | 1,920 ft/min | 585 m/min | |
| Ceiling: | 39,000 ft | 11,887 m | |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Southwest Aerospace Museum | Fort Worth | Texas |
| Strategic Air Command Museum | Ashland | Nebraska |
| United States Air Force Museum | Wright-Patterson | Ohio |
B-36J on display
Southwest Aerospace Museum | Strategic Air Command Museum | United States Air Force Museum |
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| Jim , CO | sildenafil generic viagra viagra 06/27/2008 @ 01:14 [ref: 21641] |
| wendell montague dallas, TX | The b 36 taken at clinton Ohio is really at Chanute afb.The b 29 in the background is now at albuquerque as Duke of Albuquerque.I stayed in the dorms in the background during tech school in 77.Ide like to see the rest of his mothers photos 05/01/2008 @ 11:20 [ref: 20769] |
| loomas marshall san bernardino, CA | The first airplane I ever flew in was a B-36 at Walker AFB NM where I started my Air Force career in 1954 in the 39th BS Engineering section as a third wiper on A/C 2819 a feather weight J model crewed by T/SGT Billy Graves. I then transfered to Travis to the RBs in 1957. After 11 years in SAC I attended Flt Eng school at McChord AFB and flew C124s,C141s. I retired in 1979 at Norton AFB Ca. 03/17/2008 @ 22:24 [ref: 20071] |
| Michael Hanson , MO | I have many memories of the B-36,from when I was a child in El Paso,TX. My father, MSGT Gillis W. Hanson, was a crew chief on the B-36. What a pain to maintain! So much to this bird with a crew of up to 16. I still have his flight records...20 or more hours for one flight to Alaska and back, non-stop, numerous times. The 36 that flew into the side of Mt.Franklin in Dec.51 was his plane. He didn't have to fly that night and was home in bed. I answered the phone from the Base, asking if he was home. My mother hated the B-36. It kept Dad away from home for long TDY's and even at Biggs, away from home for days at a time.
If you want a little idea of what life was like for a B-36 crew and the noise one could make....watch the movie "Stratigic Air Command", with Lt.Col. James Stewart on active duty, at the time. Turn up the volumn full on a surround sound system till your windows rattle and the pictures fall off the walls. I ain't kiddin' folks. 01/18/2008 @ 10:10 [ref: 19348] |
| Bill Rogers Delta (Vancouver), BC | Of all the aircraft built the B36 is my favorite. Have never seen one up close, nor witnessed a take-off or landing but have seen one flying north from Wash. State in Okanogan Valley. As a radio operator at Forth Smith, N.W.T. Canada, I was standing watch at the Royal Canadian Signals radio station monitoring 3105kcs aircraft frequency at about 0130hrs mid January (?) 1954 and a loud and clear voiced crackled over the radio stating "Fort Smith radio, Air Force (Ident Nr.)9,000 feet overhead, estimating The Pas, (Manitoba), 1hr 30 mins (?), about 15mins later same thing. There were nine A/C all to-gether. It was a cold, clear moonlight night & it was a real thrill to hear sound of the engines, it was something I had never heard before or since. Often wondered who was flying them & where they were going. Went outside to see if I could spot them in the moonlight but no success. Very interesting site. 12/07/2007 @ 19:29 [ref: 18842] |
| Karl Kuyper Memphis, TN | I too am an Air Force Brat!! Proud of it to! I remember the oooohh "Big soogie bird daddy" My first rememberence of the B-36 was when my dad,"CSMGT WILLIAM H. KUYPER" was recalled around 1951 or so. Foot note about my dad, Years later of course, He was was selected in the first go around in SAC to be promoted to CMSGT E-9)Our first duty station was in Forth Worth Tx. We hadn't been there long when the tornato ripped though the flight line area... I remember the storm and that the whole base was in a lock down mode. I didn't see my dad for a looong time. He was in Recietech(spell?). I can remember mom's china in the hutch rattling like crazy everytime one took off. Yes that was an experence "No one will never forget" Then we moved to Spokecan wa. where I entered first grade.. I remember one winter my brother and a bunch of our buddies were in a scrap dump yard and we found a "blister" from a b-36 and we all pulled...pushed it up a hill. Me being the smallest got vollentired to be the first to go down the hill while setting in it.... That thing spun around and around and went prety much where it wanted to go.... When it finally stoped... I was as sick as a dog... There was some Air Force guy just standing there looking at me shaking his head... Of course my brother and friends(?) took off leaving me to my own... Anyway this guy helped me out and asked what the*#@@ was I thinking when I got into the blister??? I was to sick to answer.... He took me home to my mother and they had a long talk... that night my dad gave me and my brother a long talk, mostly about staying out of the dump area.... Oh I grew up to be a Marine and retired as a MGSGT(E-9) also. I was an Avation Maintence chief.. Karl 02/13/2007 @ 10:13 [ref: 15500] |
| THOMAS J HARRIS CMSGT RET PANAMA CITY, FL | I WENT TO BASIC AT SAMPSON AFB, NY FROM JAN TO MAR 1954 THEN TO SHEPPARD AFB, TX FOR B-36 SCHOOL, ASSIGNED TO BIGGS AFB,TX, 95TH PMS SQDN, 95TH BOMB WING. WORKED ON THE BIG BOYS UNTIL SEPT 1957, CHANGED A LOT OF SPARK PLUGS, BUT WHAT A AIRCRAFT TO WORK ON AS A 18 YEAR OLD KID. WENT ON TO STAY 30 YEAR IN AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE, ON C-119, C-124, WB-50, HU-16,VC-118, B-52, KC-135, C-141, F-4E. ALL MY EXPERIENCE ON AIRCRAFT THE B-36 SIX TURNING 4 BURNING, WAS AT THE TOP OF LIST. HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL YOU A AND E MECH'S.
TJ HARRIS 03/03/2006 @ 09:13 [ref: 12683] |
| Doug Bonham Blue Springs, MO | My favorit airplane is the B-36 peace maker 06/10/2005 @ 15:50 [ref: 10443] |
| Joan Alex Libby,, MT | What a great site......I retired from the USAF in Jan,1976.I started my career on Mar 3, 1953.Basic at Sampson AFB, New York........A & E School at Shephard AFB, TX.............First assignment was the 99th PMS at Fairchild AFB, WA.........Started working at the A-2 Pool....Driving a Euclid Tractor....towing the RB-36's in and out of docks, parking them on the flight line and on and off refueling pits.......
After about a year I was assigned to the Periodic Maintenance Dock....Accomplished PM on the P & W R-4360 engines............Yes, the B-36's were in the dock for "long" periods of time. Uncle Sam finally got wise and we finally stopped fixing things before they broke. Went TDY to Eilson AFB in Alaska in 1954, Project "Ice Box" there about a month.........36 degrees below all the time...had to keep ground heaters on the engines all the time we were there...........TDY to Guam in 1955....one of our Rb-36's had the right wing rip off the fusulage from the tailing edge to about the center of the wing.......they called in a crew from the depot to fix it and a civilian crew flew it back to the states. Got a PCS to Davis Mathan, AZ in 1957.....worked on the KC-97's on the flight line...........In Iceland 1964 through 1967....F-102's............Vietnam 1969-1970....F100's..... Back to Travis AFB....1970-1976.Retired there after 23 Years active duty Letters and photos are great John Alex Libby, MT 05/09/2005 @ 17:38 [ref: 10164] |
| Robert W. Gutierrez Fort Worth, TX | It was in the Fort Worth Star Telegram on May 2,2005 that the B-36 that is here will be going to the Pima Air Museum in about 120 days since the museum building here in still on paper only and funds for the building lacking.It is sad since so many people ,retirees that had built her, had work so hard to restore her.The B-36 is the first real airplane I remenber. As a young child ,we moved to Ellsworth AFB in 1952, then to Puerto Rico in 1953 to 1956. My father was Tsgt Mario O. Gutierrez retired in 1963 at Little Rock AFB where we would only see a B-36 flying high in the sky as it was too heavy to land there.My father went to the big air field in 1988. 05/06/2005 @ 21:58 [ref: 10138] |
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