pretty planes

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Hey, looks cool, small and fast. Pity we can't fly anywhere.

62M, Just passing time and occasionally wind. Try one of my stories before they're all gone.
 
B-36 in the foreground, B-29 in the background
Sorta correct.

The airplane in the foreground is the one and only NB-36H "Crusader." Beginning life as a tornado-damaged production Convair B-36H "Peacemaker," the "Crusader" carried a fully-functioning nuclear reactor within its bomb bay. To this day it is referred to as "nuclear-powered," but the reactor was not used in conjunction with either the plane's six reciprocating engines or four turbojets (aka "6 turning & 4 burning"); it was strictly there to study problems posed by operating an airborne reactor. A follow up design - the Convair X-6 - would have flown with GE turbojets utilizing heat generated by the reactor, but President Kennedy cancelled the program in 1961. The Soviet Union abandoned a similar program four years later.

An enlarged tail and larger engine nacelles housing Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors instead of the B-29's troublesome Wright Duplex Cyclone engines identify the plane in the background as the B-29's more powerful post war development - the Boeing B-50.
 
Sorta correct.

The airplane in the foreground is the one and only NB-36H "Crusader." Beginning life as a tornado-damaged production Convair B-36H "Peacemaker," the "Crusader" carried a fully-functioning nuclear reactor within its bomb bay. To this day it is referred to as "nuclear-powered," but the reactor was not used in conjunction with either the plane's six reciprocating engines or four turbojets (aka "6 turning & 4 burning"); it was strictly there to study problems posed by operating an airborne reactor. A follow up design - the Convair X-6 - would have flown with GE turbojets utilizing heat generated by the reactor, but President Kennedy cancelled the program in 1961. The Soviet Union abandoned a similar program four years later.

An enlarged tail and larger engine nacelles housing Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors instead of the B-29's troublesome Wright Duplex Cyclone engines identify the plane in the background as the B-29's more powerful post war development - the Boeing B-50.

thanks for the info!! Always nice to learn more about older planes
 
Not a B29 in the background, its a B50. The B50 looks similar to a B29 but is bigger, and uses R4360 engines instead of the R3350s.

Yes, it was already posted by Smokeinmyeyes

read up a couple of posts
 
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That DC3 looks remarkably complete and undamaged. Couldn't have crashed, I guess it was dumped?



62M, Hoping to fly SOMEWHERE soon.
 
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