Is that the plane captain America crashed?

I don't know XD

"Six turnin' and four burnin' ". The "Peacemaker" was the largest bomber ever made.

X3

Hell yeah!

Awesome. :D

This is a B-36J-III, s/n 52-2827, named "City of Fort Worth." Built right here in my hometown at the Convair plant in Ft. Worth in 1954, it's the last B-36 ever made (I think). It's the largest strategic bomber ever built. This one is (was) -"at the Pima Air Museum.

My folks worked on the restoration of this one. I love the B-36 and spent a lot of time studying and researching it.

WOW ^^
Great job <3

Wow. Good to see there's at least one of these still intact, even if it never flies again.

I have the 1/72 Revell/Monogram kit of this plane. It has the longest wingspan of any injection-molded model airplane ever made. I'd build it, but I'd have to move into a larger house. :)

Its a awesome looking Plane X3

Have you seen "Strategic Air Command" (1955) with Jimmy Stewart? Lots of footage of the B-36, inside and out.

nope ^^

I had that same model growing up. I think it's still somewhere in my parents' attic where I hung it before I moved out.

Did you know! This particular example of B-36 originally assigned to the 95th Bomb Wing at Biggs AFB. It was also the last active B-36. After it was decommissioned, it was on display at Amon Carter Field in Fort Worth, also known as Greater Southwest International Airport. When that airport closed due to DFW International Airport's opening, the aircraft was set to be moved to Carswell Air Force Base for display there. It sat at Carswell on display for 20 years, falling apart and being vandalized. A huge undertaking was launched to get their aircraft repaired and up to "display standards" in the mid-90s. When Carswell shifted to Fort Worth Naval Air Station, the aircraft had to be moved. Since the Air Force technically owned it, permission was sought to fly the airplane to Alliance Airport. It had its engines (save the jets) and could have made the flight. The Air Force said "no."

As it stands, the aircraft is technically airworthy. The engines (all 10) have been rebuilt and the airframe is still intact. If it weren't' so expensive to operate (even having all 10 engines idling on the ramp for 30 minutes would be prohibitively expensive), it could be flown. It's unlikely, though, that the aircraft will ever fly again.

I didn't know it was still airworthy: that's so cool! They need a GoFundMe or Kickstarter so they can buy fuel...or build a really, really long taxiway. ;)

P.S. Why -- and for that matter, *how* -- would someone vandalize a strategic nuclear bomber...on an Air Force Base?

Most of the intentional damage was done when the aircraft was at Greater Southwest. Windows were broken and all of the instruments (all of them!) were stolen. They'll occasionally turn up in Texas salvage yards, even today. It was stored in the open and wasn't secured in any way, taxied off the runway when it landed and just left there. When it was shipped to Carswell some years later, it was again exposed to the elements and some parts were stripped by base personnel looking to take souvenirs.

This was an era when no one really cared about the piston bombers. The B-52 was the mainstay of the strategic bomber fleet and the Peacemaker, historical though it was, simply wasn't cared about. 52-2827 didn't have any fanfare when it was built or when it was retired in 1959. Two years after 52-2827 was completed, in 1956, the scrapping of the Peacemakers began. One year after 52-2827 was completed, in 1955, B-52s were being built in such numbers that the Peacemakers were truly no longer needed. They were slow compared to their Soviet aggressors and couldn't be refueled in the air. It was a majestic, awesome aircraft that simply wasn't necessary; it was a stop-gap between the B-47 and the B-52. This was an airplane that was conceived and built in the mid-40s during the war only only saw service in the late 40s and early 50s. It did its job well, and was in fact the only aircraft able to carry the first-generation H-bombs.

Want to know my favorite sound in the world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G93y2aUsnw

Yeah, it's sad...military technology (on all sides) had to advance so quickly that some of the most innovative designs were functionally obsolete as soon as they left the factory floor. :/

Wow, that's a neat clip...the engine noise was a lot smoother than I expected. But then, I wasn't underneath it at the time. :)