Let's get THIS at Oshkosh '08!

Big John wrote:
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.

A friend of mine who was in SAC flew in B-36's and said it was
unusual to complete a mission with all engines still running and
that no one got concerned about it unless more than 3 failed or
all 3 on one side failed.

--
Jim Pennino

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One other item. Last night on Military Channel on TV they had a
segment on the B-36. Since they repeat these programs for a week or so
at a time you'all might look at channel and see the interesting
segment.

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...
--

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 :-))

In article .com,
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...
--

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 doubt that it will happen. There is too much magnesium (how many ways
can you spell "corrosion"?). The stuff hates itself and will return to
salt in time.

"Kingfish" wrote

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 think the correct answer to this is, "If you have to ask how much fuel it
burns, you can't afford it!" g
--
Jim in NC