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"Eck!" -- George the Cat

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

The Convair YB-60:


I'm not convinced that the sound isn't dubbed in, but it's probably about the best that can be done. Only one of these things ever flew.
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6 comments:

bearsense said...

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

3/17/2013 11:45 PM
w3ski said...

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

3/18/2013 11:54 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

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.

3/18/2013 1:55 PM
LRod said...

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)

3/18/2013 7:14 PM
Cujo359 said...

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.

3/19/2013 2:10 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

LRod and Cujo, it's not as though there was much choice for engines in the early 1950s.

3/19/2013 8:43 AM

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