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Dirty Review: B-36 Peacemaker in action
Meyers K. Jacobsen & Ray Wagner
softcover, Squadron/Signal Publications
Highlights:
1942 artist's conception & mockup with twin tails
5 XB-36 shots, including damage to main gear
B-36A/B
15 shots, including good close-ups of the nose, tail, and dorsal turrets
B-36C (never-built tractor-prop variant)
model & mockup of wing
B-36D, RB-36D & RB-36E
20 images
scrap diagrams of jet pod, early and later bomb bay door
configurations, B-36B & B-36D canopy development, RB-36 radomes
B-36D 3-view
4 interior shots of RB-36D crew positions
B-36F, B-36H, RB-36H, B-36J
7 images
scrap drawings include tail radomes, B-36H nose, B-36J (III)
Featherweight conversion
B-36 wings, 1955
17 images, including RB-36H crash at Denver and hulks at Davis-Monthan
XC-99
4 images
YB-60 - originally the YB-36G, the swept-wing jet-powered outgrowth of
the Peacemaker created as a competitor to Boeing's B-52.
4 images (including the never-flown second aircraft
FICON & Tom-Tom
GRB-36F with F-84E and B-29 chase
plane with black undersides
3 shots of an YRF-84F hookup
B-36 Tom-Tom with single F-84
ground shot of GRB-36D/RF-84K mating
NB-36H "Convair Crusader" nuclear reactor testbed aircraft
Serial number list
6 color profiles
B-36B 7th BG(H) Carswell AFB
B-36D 326th BS(H) Loring AFB
B-36D 42nd BW (H)
RB-36E 72nd BS (H) "Circle-X" tail
B-36H 7th BW (H) Carswell AFB
NB-36H
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Disclaimer: book purchased by
myself