Forgotten B-36 "almosts"
Proposed B-36 record flight, 15,000 miles, 1947. The idea was strip one down
to its barest essentials and turn it into a flying fuel tank, boosted into
the air with JATO. Seems no one bothered to consult the Soviets about
intruding on their airspace. Maybe the pre-communist Chinese would have been
more accommodating. Perhaps it would have worked in the Southern
Hemisphere...
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