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The B-36 takeoff and landing in James Stewart’s Strategic Air Command in 4K

This post's video features some interesting clips of the incredible Convair B-36 strategic bomber landing and taking off The cool video in this post shows...

The XB-58 Hustler prototype was carried by the enormous B-36 Peacemaker.

Convair was able to move the XB-58 prototype from Fort Worth, Texas, to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, for testing, using a modified...

Catwalks were installed inside the wings of the B-36 Peacemaker for in-flight engine maintenance

The B-36 Peacemaker's wing was sufficiently deep to allow technicians to access it and maintain the engines while the aircraft was in flight The B-36...

To operate from Arctic Staging Bases, the Convair XB-36 Peacemaker was equipped with Track-Type Landing Gear

The SAC briefly used the XB-36 as a training aid in June 1948 while awaiting the production of the 7th Bombardment Group's first B-36A Consolidated...

The flight engineer stations on the B-36 and Concorde both included several dials, switches, and buttons. However, only the Peacemaker had levers

In the past, a flight engineer's position was used in the design and construction of the majority of bigger aircraft, both military and civil A...

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The US Navy F-8 pilots that instructed USAF F-4 crews in ACM and beat them during every engagement

The Navy pilots destroyed their USAF brethren, to the...

An XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber doing an emergency landing

Bailing out and losing the XB-70 was quickly becoming...

China used the Soviet copy of the B-29 to intercept CIA B-17 and P-2 spy flights

The Tupolev Tu-4 was the Soviet copy of the...

Soviet pilot explains why captured F-5 beat MiG-21 and MiG-23

‘Every flight ended with the same result: MiG-21 lost,...

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