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6 comments:
Han't heard of this one. Recall a B-36 passing over my house when I was 10 or 11. Turns out, one of the guys I later flew with had been a gunner on a SAC B-36 crew.
Thax - - Bear
Must have been a crazy job to hand manufacture a half dozen or so of an experimental Aircraft. A little of this a bunch of that, lets order some of these and then we just have to create that. I can really appreciate the creativity and hard work in creating a working experiment.
w3ski
Kind of the way things were done back then. Still, a lot of the aircraft in the numerical never made it to even test stage. There was a proposal to replace the B-47 with a turboprop (the XB-55), would would have been our own version of the Tu-95.
You can't tell me there's no incest in aviation manufacturing. Eight engines, large vertical fin with no roundness? That has B-52 written all over it. What are the odds? Landing gear and cockpit were carried over from the B-36, it looks like.
There was even an early B-52 slipped into the video. That was the tandem seat version (as in the B-47), which LeMay hated. He made Boeing put the pilots side-by-side or no Air Force purchase.
I didn't have the audio on, so maybe they explained it.
LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired
(posted to see if I get filtered)
I'll bet it sounded a lot like an early B-52. It used the same engines, according to Wikipedia, mounted roughly the same way.
LRod and Cujo, it's not as though there was much choice for engines in the early 1950s.
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