Many times I made practice runs on B-36's in the Air Defense Command.
On almost every occasion they had one or more engines shut down.

Maybe they were just saving fuel )

Think their 20+ hour missions did not abort unless a lot of engines
had to be shut down. Forget the number now. It took so many hours to
get the bird ready and launched they did not abort except for a safety
of flight problem.

Those birds had such a light wing loading they could out turn the
fighters at altitude. Several times had contact with the pilots and
they were fighter pilots that had been shanghaied into the big birds
and enjoyed 'whupping' us in a turning contest if we would play with
them after we made our lead collision course attack run )

Big John

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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:27:00 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

Kingfish wrote:
On Oct 18, 9:07 am, Jay Honeck wrote:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...288877,00.html


Maybe there *is* hope that we'll one day see a B-36 fly again...
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I've had the same thought, but it'd take somebody with Bill Gates'
deep pockets to get a Peacemaker back in the air.

Uh... What's the fuel burn rate of six 4360's & 4 J47s at T/O power?
Dudley?

I'd have to flip the ole'whizz wheel a bit on that one but my gut
feeling is that it's slightly above my pay grade :-))