The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use...
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was to use a Convair B-36 bomber as a testbed aircraft, and though one NB-36H was modified during the early stages of the project, the program was canceled...
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heavily damaged aircraft was rebuilt as the NB-36H Nuclear Reactor Testbed aircraft. On February 2, 1953 Convair B-36H Serial No 51-5729 crashed 16 miles southwest...
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Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
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Tu-95 Soviet bomber aircraft, analogous to the United States' earlier Convair NB-36H. It was intended to see whether a nuclear reactor could be used to power...
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England: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-331-0.[page needed] "Convair NB-36H "The Crusader"". National Museum of the US Air Force. 2009-06-26. Archived...
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powerplant testing, following the NB-36H programme. Cancelled and none built. Jacobsen, Meyers K. (1997). Convair B-36: A Comprehensive History of America's...
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aircraft. Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair X-6 Convair NB-36H Tupolev Tu-119 Notes Trakimavičius, Lukas. "The Future Role of...
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Pluto – US nuclear ramjet project, 1957–1964 Convair NB-36H – American experimental plane (1955–61) Convair X-6 – US proposed nuclear-powered plane (1950s)...
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aircraft to fly with variable wing sweep. X-6 Convair USAF, AEC 1957 Nuclear Propulsion Not built. The Convair NB-36H experiment, a B-36 modified to carry (but...
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HTR-10, a prototype to the first Generation IV reactor, HTR-PM The Convair NB-36H, the first aircraft to test an onboard reactor Operation Sea Orbit,...
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bomber, Tupolev Tu-95LAL, similar to the somewhat earlier American Convair NB-36H project, but, being based on the turboprop Tu-95, it was never supersonic...
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crusader in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. It may also refer to: Convair NB-36H Crusader, an experimental nuclear-powered bomber Crusader tank, a British...
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August 3, 1954. First nuclear reactor operated on an aircraft: The Convair NB-36H tested an onboard reactor that was not connected to the engines, first...
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Indirect Air Cycle. ANP planned for Convair to modify two B-36s under the MX-1589 project. One of the B-36s, the NB-36H, was to be used for studying shielding...
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awarded Convair a contract to fly a nuclear reactor on board a modified Convair B-36 Peacemaker under the MX-1589 project of the ANP program. The NB-36H Nuclear...
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List of aircraft (Co–Cz) (section Convair)
Consolidated Model 37 Convair Model 7 XSM-65 Atlas Convair Model 8 F-102 Delta Dagger Convair Model 9 NB-36H Crusader Convair Model 10 logistic transport...
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Convair B-36 Peacemakers of the 7th Bomb Wing, staging through Goose AFB, Labrador, from Carswell AFB, Texas, to RAF Fairford, ends badly for B-36H-25-CF...
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