Convair NX-2?

I was thumbimg through an aviation book catalog while waiting for a flight
today and saw a blurb about a book about the NX-2. Apparently Convair
designed it with the intention of using a nuclear reactor for thrust. Has
anyone read the book? How far did Convair and General Electric actually get
in the design and testing?

D.

Capt. Doug ) wrote:
: I was thumbimg through an aviation book catalog while waiting for a flight
: today and saw a blurb about a book about the NX-2. Apparently Convair
: designed it with the intention of using a nuclear reactor for thrust. Has
: anyone read the book? How far did Convair and General Electric actually get
: in the design and testing?
:

A B-36 was converted to carry an operational reactor:

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/resea...bers/b3-84.htm
Convair NB-36H - US Air Force Museum Bomber Virtual Aircraft Gallery



--Jerry Leslie (my opinions are strictly my own)
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Originally Posted by Capt. Doug

NX-2
D.

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