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Join Date: May 2007
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Flyboys - Educate me on the B36
Watched SAC with Jimmy Stewart last night.
WTF is with that B36 - 6 radial engines and 4(?) jets -
Were 6 engines not enough to lift the plane on takeoff, so they added the jets?
What year was that aircraft designed, mid 50's?
Cold war tactics, just fly around and let "the other guys" (rooskies) know we're up there?
(and that so called Holland Tunnel - what is that, do the wing stumps take up all that space in the tub, or is that something else?)
(Boring as hell movie, reminded me of Jimmy Stewart in "Lindbergh")
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