Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a strategic bomber that was built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36... 87 KB (11,246 words) - 23:45, 5 April 2024 |
Service ceiling: 12,200 m (40,000 ft) Related development Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair X-6 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Tupolev... 13 KB (1,261 words) - 19:04, 16 April 2024 |
Convair X-6 was a proposed experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft. The project was to use a Convair B-36... 10 KB (1,066 words) - 08:14, 18 April 2024 |
FICON project (redirect from B-36 Ficon) the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying a Republic F-84 Thunderflash parasite fighter... 13 KB (1,847 words) - 22:56, 12 September 2022 |
Akron and the Macon. No B-36 was ever equipped to carry the F-85, however, and the two prototypes only flew from a single modified B-29. To counter improving... 15 KB (1,678 words) - 03:23, 14 April 2024 |
Northrop YB-49 (redirect from Northrop B-49) entered production, being passed over in favor of the more conventional Convair B-36 piston-driven design. Design work performed in the development of the... 20 KB (2,593 words) - 19:29, 3 April 2024 |
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing XB-39 Superfortress Boeing B-50 Superfortress Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair B-36 Tupolev... 7 KB (558 words) - 17:54, 24 April 2024 |
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin (category Convair B-36 Peacemaker) McDonnell Aircraft. It was intended to deploy from the bomb bay of the Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter. The XF-85's intended role was to defend... 29 KB (3,494 words) - 18:55, 13 January 2024 |
Douglas XB-19 (redirect from Douglas B-19) It was the largest bomber built for the USAAF until 1946, with the Convair B-36 surpassing it in size. The XB-19 project was intended to test flight... 12 KB (1,279 words) - 20:28, 15 April 2024 |
Northrop YB-35 (redirect from Northrop B-35) Boeing and Consolidated Aircraft Company and led to the production of the Convair B-36. In May, one month before the USAAF was created, the contract was also... 26 KB (3,497 words) - 01:33, 4 April 2024 |
F-86K Boeing B-47 Stratojet Boeing KB-50J Superfortress Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter Chase XC-123A Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair NB-36 Curtiss XF-87... 11 KB (1,272 words) - 20:08, 1 April 2024 |
commander of Strategic Air Command (SAC), for being inferior to the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and having little capacity for further improvement, while... 39 KB (4,392 words) - 03:28, 25 April 2024 |
a B-29 during the war. This occurred on 6 December 1950, when a B-29 shot down Lieutenant N. Serikov. With the arrival of the mammoth Convair B-36, the... 81 KB (9,850 words) - 11:57, 27 April 2024 |
from the British World War II-era Tallboy bomb to be dropped from the Convair B-36 bomber, it weighed 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) and contained an 8,050 lb (3... 4 KB (494 words) - 13:24, 23 June 2022 |
the FICON system included: B-36/XF-85 Goblin, an attempt to equip bombers with their own escort fighters (1948) Convair B-36/F-84, another, more successful... 13 KB (1,351 words) - 16:57, 11 December 2022 |
Carswell Air Force Base (section B-36 Peacemaker Era) occupied over the decades by Convair, General Dynamics, and now by Lockheed Martin. The bulk of the Air Force Convair B-36, B-58 Hustler, F-111 Aardvark... 39 KB (4,890 words) - 09:35, 10 February 2024 |
the USAAF submitted a "letter of intent" to Convair, that ordered the first 100 production Convair B-36 bombers to be built - itself a design first asked... 22 KB (2,755 words) - 11:54, 19 April 2024 |
nuclear weapons ever put into service by the United States; only the Convair B-36 Peacemaker was capable of carrying them. The bomb used manual in-flight... 9 KB (899 words) - 20:56, 16 February 2024 |
Air Force Base, a bomber base in Fort Worth, Texas, to qualify in the Convair B-36. He arrives in a civilian business suit, for which he is rebuked by General... 15 KB (1,999 words) - 23:47, 21 February 2024 |