An excellent, comprehensive book about the Nuclear Powered Aircraft program is NX-2: Convair Nuclear Propulsion Jet. The author is David M. Carpenter, published by Jet Pioneers of America, 2003. The ISBN is 0-9633387-9-X. I used it in writing my book about the C-133, because GE had the idea to use a C-133 as the test bed to fly GE's X211/J87 jet engine in a non-nuclear mode. That is one of the modifications I mention in that chapter of the book, which is entitled Remembering an Unsung Giant: The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster and Its People, which will be available in April 2006.

Cal Taylor
The C-133 Project