Thanks for watching everyone! And if you work at a museum and/or have access to a spare B-36 that I could crawl inside, please let me know. 😃 In the meantime, please check out my Lanc, B17, B29 and B-52 video where I film inside,
Try Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California. I'm also from the UK, but have been to both Pima and Castle, with the B-36 being the main attraction (for me).
6 turning and 4 burning as it was called. A friend of mine was a navigator/bombadier on a 36 during the testing of the Hydrogen Weapons on Bikini Atol. He had some mind blowing original photos he took on Black and White film with his personal equipment and against all the rules. They really don't make flyers of that grade and caliber anymore.
General Curtis Lemay is greatest Air Force General in history of the USAF he was in charge of all of SAC my dad served in SAC RB 36 AIRCREWMAN at TRAVIS AFB and FAIRCHILD AFB . His Aircrew is pictured in Myers Jacobsons book The Convair B 36 Amercas Big Stick. Craig Allen Santa Barbara Calif.
I used to live in San Antonio which was an Air Force town when I was there. I'm trying to remember if any of the 4 air bases srved as home for the B36 bombers. Anyone remember ? Curious to know ! 😊
The reliability of the piston engines would’ve been much higher if the Air Force would’ve spent money on more expensive spark plugs. Instead of spending $1 a spark plug the budget needed to be increased to $1.35. That would’ve solved almost all of the spark plug fouling issues which led to engine fires
"4 burning and 6 turning." The largest bomber ever produced by the US. It was thought that a B-36 would not be able to land with 1 wing out. That myth was disproven in the Korean War when an RB-36 landed safely with 1 wing out.
ONE OF THESE FLEW OVER KINGSTON JAMAICA BWI,about 1957, I was an apprentice,working with a mechanic, on a ship, I heard this STRNGE SOUND, wondering what it was, until I saw this THING , GAWD IT WAS HUGE, ,the LARGEST AIRPLANE I EVER SAW, , I GUESS IG FLER OVER, at 500ft at this time,IT DID NOT LAND,but I never saw another one even as a static airplane, I’m now 80, dut NEVER FORGOT THE SOUND ! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The B-36 had a unique sound, the six engines made a deep, smooth hum when flying. As a young child living in Dallas in the early 1950’s, I would hear and see these planes almost daily.
And the nuclear reactor is buried at the Lockheed Martin Plant in Fort worth still. making power.. I have seen the place on the North Side of the Plant where it was buried in concrete in the sarcophagus.
The B-36 was also a response to the German "Amerikabomber", that they were planning on building to attack the US with nuclear weapons as far back as the late 1930's, before WWII even started. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikabomber
I was a Sonartech in the Navy during the mid-late 80’s and my division was responsible for the ASROC’s and launcher. Was also on the PRP for nuclear weapons. We were never given anything other than a small belt worn dosimeter (can’t remember the nomenclature) and that was it. Even if we had to fire one, we just fired it and ran like hell. It truly would have sucked for my ship and my shipmates. Here the Air Force built a big assed lead cabin for the pilots. Interesting 🤔🫡
It was a great plane, but over time the mechanics changed its slogan to: -Two turning -Two burning -Two smoking -Two choking -Two more unaccounted for. As the author of this video also mentioned.
The NB-36 actually started life as just a regular B-36, until a tornado hit Carswell AFB. The cockpit area was badly damaged so Convair requested it be converted instead of repaired.
England didn't fall. That eventuality never occurred. So the USAAF, then USAF brass, scratching their heads, had to find a mission for it. So close to the jet age, that mission, fortunately was never fulfilled.
My dad used to ride racing type bicycles. Back in the day he would ride it on the old runways of the Greater south west airport after it was abandoned but before they got rid of them. He would climb inside this exact B-36 and look around, chill, (like we all would if we had that chance) it used to sit outside the entrance of the GSW Airport) Not sure if he mentions it, (I haven’t watched the whole video yet, but this was the last B-36 ever made, named the City of Fort Worth”
Gunnar Wahlmark (Swedish-American) invented the CSD ( constant speed drive) for it. He worked for an other Swede, David Sundstrand ( emigrated to the US at the age of 2). Sundstrand later becomes a successful APU manufacturer.
There’s a b-36 wreck in Newfoundland, Canada. It hit the side of a mountain trying to fly under the radar. It’s a bit of a hike up to the thing. Quite a bit of carnage on that mountain top
We would hear these being ferried back from England after the war... down over Connecticut and into New Jersey... very distinctive sound with the pusher props... they flew in high above our dairy farm...
When I was in the US Air Force as an officer from 1969 to 1973, I was at Pease AFB. It was located near Portsmouth, NH. The B-52's had left such as for bombing in Vietnam, and in December 1970, the FB-111's arrived, with the Wing Commander flying over with th afterburner on. I did get to see in the Cockpit in the hanger after it landed. Pease, as with most SAC bases, closed in 1992, after the Soviet Union ended, and now Pease is a Tradeport with an Air National Guard unit, with KC-135 tankers like I first flew in at Plattsburgh, AFB, NY in 1967 while in ROTC Summer training there in August 1967. They had a sign by the base entrance at Pease, PRIDE, Professional Results In Daily Effort,. The motto was Defensor Vindex, and SAC had it's own supplements to the Air Force regulation books we had to use. Thr mission, was to Fly and Fight, and Peace is our Profession, like the B-36 bomber.
You forgot to mention the dropping of one of those bombs over Canadian territory when the carburetors for those six pusher engines froze due to their placement too close the leading edge of the wings. They jettisoned the bomb and all but one of the crew bailed out over the Canadian coast of B.C. only to watch the plane fly off into the Canadian north to crash into the side of a mountain in northern B.C. Only a couple of the crew survived if I remember correctly.
They used to call it "six turning, four burning" because of the engine layout. However the people flying and maintaining it became to call it " two turning, two burning, two chocking, two missing and two unaccounted for".
Peak 1950s aethetics! If you want to see it in action and the interior - I suggest to look up "Strategic Air Command" 1955 movie. The one with James Stewart. Engine start-up, take-off, crew compartments (even the trolley operation inside the tube was shown).
When I was a kid the B-36s would have bombing runs over my city. You would hear a droning sound and look up and they would be a B-36. They seemed to fly very slow, and all the while...droning, droning and droning. It appeared that a jet fighter would have an easy time shooting them down.
These B36 birds flew out of Plattsburgh AFB in 1950`s. You didn`t need radar to pick them up. You could hear them noisy noisy 25 miles away at 40,000 feet. They finally got replaced with B47`s which always flew at low level 300 feet bomb runs under the radars here. We could stand by the barn, look straight east we could see the top of the canopy. Our farm was 400 feet up so we wuz looking down at the B47`s when they made low-level runs
I dont know about the 3 aiports thing... I live in the azores and we have an american base here. There are plenty of pictures of b36 in Lajes. Unless, Lajes field was one of the few places it could land.
Hello from Australia. Wow, who doesn't remember the Convair B36 with it's 6 Pushing Power and Four Jet Engines for assistance in take off mode, A well timed replacement for the B29 Superfortress and to see it in real life is my God, Back in those day's what a veritable nightmare of a Bomber. Watching not just movie take off but that from old film reels this Aircraft would be I motion when the Nose Wheel came up and it would howl along with Main Gear still on the Tarmac and then that Gentle lift off and climb out. A Great Aircraft for the Timed that the World was in back then, Would have liked to see some Enhancement for Self protection in the form of the same guns mounted on the B29 but their it is, A technical masterpiece for back then until the Boeing B47 and the Convair B58 Hustler came into the picture, Sure was an interesting Interlude of an Aircraft that would lead to the Famous Boring B52 Stratofortress Bomber but unknown at that time to the Designer's at Convair, Now look at the B52 to be of course through all its variants the 100 Year old Aircraft and Potent. Regards John
Thanks for watching everyone! And if you work at a museum and/or have access to a spare B-36 that I could crawl inside, please let me know. 😃 In the meantime, please check out my Lanc, B17, B29 and B-52 video where I film inside,
Love these clips. I’m a huge fan of flight. I know how it works but still boggles me just how these birds even get off the ground.
I hope you do get to crawl in side a b 36 wow l would like that very much 👍
Try Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California. I'm also from the UK, but have been to both Pima and Castle, with the B-36 being the main attraction (for me).
I hope you can get to crawl around inside a B-36. I think the best part of these videos is seeing you crawl around inside the airplanes
Hopefully sometime in the future :)
watch "Strategic Air Command" With jimmy stewart..........beautiful shots......
Ah, yes. The old "2 turning, 2 smoking, 2 feathered, 2 smoking, and 2 on fire"
2 turning, 2 burning, 2 smoking, 2 choking, 2 unaccounted for
too good
Watch Strategic Air Command circa 1955. General James " Jimmy " Stewart check out his CV . . .
Hmm.., bomber and peacemaker.., oil and water springs to mind.
Two turning, two burning, two choking, two smoking and two unaccounted for!
6 turning and 4 burning as it was called. A friend of mine was a navigator/bombadier on a 36 during the testing of the Hydrogen Weapons on Bikini Atol. He had some mind blowing original photos he took on Black and White film with his personal equipment and against all the rules. They really don't make flyers of that grade and caliber anymore.
Hemispheric bomber was the term in 1940s
Sad that out of 384 built only 4 remain
General Curtis Lemay is greatest Air Force General in history of the USAF he was in charge of all of SAC my dad served in SAC RB 36 AIRCREWMAN at TRAVIS AFB and FAIRCHILD AFB . His Aircrew is pictured in Myers Jacobsons book The Convair B 36 Amercas Big Stick. Craig Allen Santa Barbara Calif.
Imagine the money that was consumed producing this aircraft but no doubt part of the learning curve which produced the B52 .
I used to live in San Antonio which was an Air Force town when I was there. I'm trying to remember if any of the 4 air bases srved as home for the B36 bombers. Anyone remember ? Curious to know ! 😊
can anyone confirm that a pilot once said that landing a B36 was like landing the Empire State Building?
The reliability of the piston engines would’ve been much higher if the Air Force would’ve spent money on more expensive spark plugs. Instead of spending $1 a spark plug the budget needed to be increased to $1.35. That would’ve solved almost all of the spark plug fouling issues which led to engine fires
BG Jimmy Stewart made the B-36 famous in the modern era.
I drive by this museum everyday on the way to work. I’ve yet to actually go. Maybe I should.
I walked around one in Texas.
Should have packed a lunch first!
Actor Jimmy Stewart was a general in the airforce and he flew the B-36.
"4 burning and 6 turning." The largest bomber ever produced by the US.
It was thought that a B-36 would not be able to land with 1 wing out. That myth was disproven in the Korean War when an RB-36 landed safely with 1 wing out.
ONE OF THESE FLEW OVER KINGSTON JAMAICA BWI,about 1957, I was an apprentice,working with a mechanic, on a ship, I heard this STRNGE SOUND, wondering what it was, until I saw this THING , GAWD IT WAS HUGE, ,the LARGEST AIRPLANE I EVER SAW, , I GUESS IG FLER OVER, at 500ft at this time,IT DID NOT LAND,but I never saw another one even as a static airplane, I’m now 80, dut NEVER FORGOT THE SOUND ! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The B-36 had a unique sound, the six engines made a deep, smooth hum when flying. As a young child living in Dallas in the early 1950’s, I would hear and see these planes almost daily.
Now, there's a thrill and memory that many of us can also relate to. Good for you, Mike.
I wish I could have heard those aircraft in person. You are lucky to have witnessed those planes back in the day. The sound would have been awesome !
Here, in the Monterey Bay area, we would hear them while they were miles away. Then we would look up and locate them by their vapor trails. Yep, 1950.
B-36 still more maneuverable than the F-35 :P
@@nemo227 Nice !
My father worked on these when he was in the Strategic Air Command
And the nuclear reactor is buried at the Lockheed Martin Plant in Fort worth still. making power..
I have seen the place on the North Side of the Plant where it was buried in concrete in the sarcophagus.
THANKS Paul
I have one.
I love it.
Thank you for your great walk around very precious information to help me to make the Monogram 1/72 model
huh I thought the one in Dayton was the only one still in any good shape
Just watch Strategic Air Command to get a good idea how big this plane was.
2 turning, 2 burning, 2 smoking, 2 choking and 2 more unaccounted for 🤣🤣🤣
Для своего времени это был не сбиваемый самолёт. Хотя и сильно переразмереный для ядерной эпохи...
Six turning, four burning.
The B-36 was also a response to the German "Amerikabomber", that they were planning on building to attack the US with nuclear weapons as far back as the late 1930's, before WWII even started.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikabomber
Anything with 10 engines is not a Peacemaker!!! lol
Beautiful Plane!!!
I was a Sonartech in the Navy during the mid-late 80’s and my division was responsible for the ASROC’s and launcher. Was also on the PRP for nuclear weapons. We were never given anything other than a small belt worn dosimeter (can’t remember the nomenclature) and that was it. Even if we had to fire one, we just fired it and ran like hell. It truly would have sucked for my ship and my shipmates. Here the Air Force built a big assed lead cabin for the pilots. Interesting 🤔🫡
I used to play on that aircraft as a child.
Interesting plane, but such a hassle to keep it airborne. But, still cool that it existed.
''peacemaker''? REALLY?
Dad saw the thing on the drawing board in 1941.
How many engines do you want?
YES
Haha best comment!!
Dornier Do X: Halt mein Bier
It was a great plane, but over time the mechanics changed its slogan to:
-Two turning
-Two burning
-Two smoking
-Two choking
-Two more unaccounted for. As the author of this video also mentioned.
Saw this one in Ft. Worth as a child. It was impressive then, hope to see it again, some day.
I love love love 1950s USAF aircraft....luck has it that I fly one in real life today in 2022.
"2 turning, 2 burning, 2 smoking, 2 choking and 2 more unaccounted for" hahaha
Looks like Tucson, THEY have GREAT PLANES!!!
"Feather 6." "Which six?" "Six turning, four buring" and finally it called "The Magnesium Overcast"
Awesome
Six turning and four burning
"2 turning - 2 burning - 2 smoking - 2 choking - and 2 more unnaccounted for" ...😆
odd plane. thanks for sharing.
R4360, 28 cylinders, 2 sparkplugs per cylinder, 56 plugs per engine, 10 engines.....gonna be a long night!
Shame turboprops weren't available soon enough to maybe retrofit these wee beasties for extended use...
THE PEACEMAKER WAS ORIGINALLY A COLT HANDGUN EXTENSIVELY USED IN THE OLD WEST
The last active duty squadron was Fairchild AFB
GAIJIN WHEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE B-36 Would maker an excellent anti submarine aircraft
Those turbojet engines are extremely low bypass; there's no turbofans!
Considering the era, quite amazing. Should have called it the beast.
I look at the Peacemaker as the EPITOME of strategic super bombers the last of its type.
Beautiful aircraft that never fired a shot in anger.
The NB-36 actually started life as just a regular B-36, until a tornado hit Carswell AFB. The cockpit area was badly damaged so Convair requested it be converted instead of repaired.
I think it was sometimes called “aluminium” cloud or “aluminium overcast”
6 turning 4 burning 😂😂😂
the défensive armements of the b 36
it is the more interressant thing of the plane
but nothing of 16 gun of 23 mm
dommage
It's pretty crazy that 384(!) of these things were made 😄
Ha! You were minutes away from my house lol! It was cool watching this aircraft being built for display
Paul, just found this YT channel - Awesome! Fantastic narration and commentary. Many thanks!
it's interesting how the whole fuselage got so wrinkled.
Castle Air Museum has open cockpit days: Sunday of both Memorial Day & Labor Day weekends.
cool plane!
England didn't fall. That eventuality never occurred. So the USAAF, then USAF brass, scratching their heads, had to find a mission for it. So close to the jet age, that mission, fortunately was never fulfilled.
Great view of one of these in a james Stewart film
My dad used to ride racing type bicycles. Back in the day he would ride it on the old runways of the Greater south west airport after it was abandoned but before they got rid of them. He would climb inside this exact B-36 and look around, chill, (like we all would if we had that chance) it used to sit outside the entrance of the GSW Airport)
Not sure if he mentions it, (I haven’t watched the whole video yet, but this was the last B-36 ever made, named the City of Fort Worth”
The Convair execs laughed all the way to the bank.
Nice to see the Shackleton in the background.
Ah yes when America before pronouns and real men still stood strong
That.Plane.Is.Huge
Gunnar Wahlmark (Swedish-American) invented the CSD ( constant speed drive) for it. He worked for an other Swede, David Sundstrand ( emigrated to the US at the age of 2). Sundstrand later becomes a successful APU manufacturer.
think you mixed the weight of the b17 between tons and pounds
I vaguely remember the late Jimmy Stewart being shown around the inside of a B36 in the 1955 movie "Strategic Air Command".
There’s a b-36 wreck in Newfoundland, Canada. It hit the side of a mountain trying to fly under the radar. It’s a bit of a hike up to the thing. Quite a bit of carnage on that mountain top
We would hear these being ferried back from England after the war... down over Connecticut and into New Jersey... very distinctive sound with the pusher props... they flew in high above our dairy farm...
hilarious joke at 7.00m
The b47 is very interesting, more like a fighter aircraft than a bomber with it's cockpit config.
When I was in the US Air Force as an officer
from 1969 to 1973, I was at Pease AFB.
It was located near Portsmouth, NH.
The B-52's had left such as for bombing
in Vietnam, and in December 1970, the
FB-111's arrived, with the Wing Commander
flying over with th afterburner on. I did get
to see in the Cockpit in the hanger after it
landed. Pease, as with most SAC bases,
closed in 1992, after the Soviet Union
ended, and now Pease is a Tradeport with
an Air National Guard unit, with KC-135
tankers like I first flew in at Plattsburgh, AFB,
NY in 1967 while in ROTC Summer training
there in August 1967.
They had a sign by the base entrance at
Pease, PRIDE, Professional Results In Daily
Effort,. The motto was Defensor Vindex,
and SAC had it's own supplements to the
Air Force regulation books we had to use.
Thr mission, was to Fly and Fight, and Peace is our Profession, like the B-36 bomber.
I saw the B36 based at Burtonwood Warrington,at the time the base was the biggest US base in the europen theatre in the second WW.
6 turning 4 burning!
6 Turnin' 4 Burnin'
You forgot to mention the dropping of one of those bombs over Canadian territory when the carburetors for those six pusher engines froze due to their placement too close the leading edge of the wings. They jettisoned the bomb and all but one of the crew bailed out over the Canadian coast of B.C. only to watch the plane fly off into the Canadian north to crash into the side of a mountain in northern B.C. Only a couple of the crew survived if I remember correctly.
They used to call it "six turning, four burning" because of the engine layout. However the people flying and maintaining it became to call it " two turning, two burning, two chocking, two missing and two unaccounted for".
What’s your amazing use those jet engines ran on aviation fuel regular gasoline not jet fuel
Thank you for this excellent tour. It was so well done.
Peak 1950s aethetics!
If you want to see it in action and the interior - I suggest to look up "Strategic Air Command" 1955 movie. The one with James Stewart.
Engine start-up, take-off, crew compartments (even the trolley operation inside the tube was shown).
The aluminum overcast.
When I was a kid the B-36s would have bombing runs over my city.
You would hear a droning sound and look up and they would be a B-36.
They seemed to fly very slow, and all the while...droning, droning and droning.
It appeared that a jet fighter would have an easy time shooting them down.
These B36 birds flew out of Plattsburgh AFB in 1950`s. You didn`t need radar to pick them up. You could hear them noisy noisy 25 miles away at 40,000 feet. They finally got replaced with B47`s which always flew at low level 300 feet bomb runs under the radars here. We could stand by the barn, look straight east we could see the top of the canopy. Our farm was 400 feet up so we wuz looking down at the B47`s when they made low-level runs
I seen it at davis monthan afb in the early 70s , very cool
I dont know about the 3 aiports thing... I live in the azores and we have an american base here. There are plenty of pictures of b36 in Lajes. Unless, Lajes field was one of the few places it could land.
Jimmy Stewart sent me. 🇺🇸
By grandfather flew the B-36 and my favorite movie is Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart & Harry Morgan
Hello from Australia.
Wow, who doesn't remember the Convair B36 with it's 6 Pushing Power and Four Jet Engines for assistance in take off mode, A well timed replacement for the B29 Superfortress and to see it in real life is my God, Back in those day's what a veritable nightmare of a Bomber.
Watching not just movie take off but that from old film reels this Aircraft would be I motion when the Nose Wheel came up and it would howl along with Main Gear still on the Tarmac and then that Gentle lift off and climb out.
A Great Aircraft for the Timed that the World was in back then, Would have liked to see some Enhancement for Self protection in the form of the same guns mounted on the B29 but their it is, A technical masterpiece for back then until the Boeing B47 and the Convair B58 Hustler came into the picture, Sure was an interesting Interlude of an Aircraft that would lead to the Famous Boring B52 Stratofortress Bomber but unknown at that time to the Designer's at Convair, Now look at the B52 to be of course through all its variants the 100 Year old Aircraft and Potent.
Regards
John