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...

The development of the Convair B-36 strategic bomber began in 1941 with the XB-36, which was intended to meet the strategic needs of the US Army Air Forces...

development of Convair's earlier mixed-power B-36 Peacemaker. On 25 August 1950, Convair issued a formal proposal for a swept-winged version of the B-36 with all-jet...

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...

their Convair Division for most of its corporate history. Convair is best known for its military aircraft; it produced aircraft such as the Convair B-36 Peacemaker...

land-based transport aircraft ever built, and was developed from the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber, sharing the wings and some other structures with it...

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...

on San Francisco. Convair B-36B 44-92075 was flying on a simulated nuclear strike combat mission against the Soviet Union. The B-36 took off on 13 February...

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...

nuclear weapons for Cold War–era deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36 Peacemaker. Superior performance at high subsonic speeds...

preserve and display the last Convair B-36 built. Of 386 B-36s built from 1945 to 1954, only four intact examples survive. B-36-J-III 52-2827 City of Fort...

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...

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...

United States from 1944 to 1948 and deployed until the withdrawal of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft in 1958. It was one of a small class of bombs...

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing XB-39 Superfortress Boeing B-50 Superfortress Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair B-36 Tupolev...

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...

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...

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...

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...

commander of Strategic Air Command (SAC), for being inferior to the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and having little capacity for further improvement, while...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

United States developed and maintained a strategic force based on the Convair B-36 bomber that would be able to attack any potential enemy from bomber bases...

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...

States Convair B-36 Boeing B-47 Stratojet Boeing B-52 Stratofortress North American A-5 Vigilante North American XB-70 Valkyrie prototype Rockwell B-1 Lancer...

problems, leading to the adoption of "conventional" solutions like the Convair B-36 and the B-52 Stratofortress. Due to the practical need for a deep wing, the...