On 18 May 2004 13:44:45 GMT, (CVBreard) wrote:

In the 1950s (1960s?), there was a serious USAF project/study to use a nuclear
reactor to power a B-36..

A friend of mine actually worked on that--at Pratt & Whitney, I think.
He would have graduated from college in 1957. He worked at P&W from
June to about the following January, when he realized that the world
was all screwed up, whereupon he quit and went to Cannon Mountain New
Hampshire as a ski patrolman. He hasn't held a regular job since, and
he claims that the nuclear power plant is what convinced him that he
was not a career engineer.

He flies one of those low-wing trikes, but he used to own a J-3, so I
still talk to him.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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