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Let's get THIS at Oshkosh '08!
"Kingfish" wrote I've had the same thought, but it'd take somebody with Bill Gates' deep pockets to get a Peacemaker back in the air. Uh... What's the fuel burn rate of six 4360's & 4 J47s at T/O power? Dudley? I think the correct answer to this is, "If you have to ask how much fuel it burns, you can't afford it!" g -- Jim in NC |
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Let's get THIS at Oshkosh '08!
Many times I made practice runs on B-36's in the Air Defense Command.
On almost every occasion they had one or more engines shut down. Maybe they were just saving fuel ) Think their 20+ hour missions did not abort unless a lot of engines had to be shut down. Forget the number now. It took so many hours to get the bird ready and launched they did not abort except for a safety of flight problem. Those birds had such a light wing loading they could out turn the fighters at altitude. Several times had contact with the pilots and they were fighter pilots that had been shanghaied into the big birds and enjoyed 'whupping' us in a turning contest if we would play with them after we made our lead collision course attack run ) Big John ************************************************** **** On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:27:00 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote: Kingfish wrote: On Oct 18, 9:07 am, Jay Honeck wrote: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...288877,00.html Maybe there *is* hope that we'll one day see a B-36 fly again... -- I've had the same thought, but it'd take somebody with Bill Gates' deep pockets to get a Peacemaker back in the air. Uh... What's the fuel burn rate of six 4360's & 4 J47s at T/O power? Dudley? I'd have to flip the ole'whizz wheel a bit on that one but my gut feeling is that it's slightly above my pay grade :-)) |
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Let's get THIS at Oshkosh '08!
One other item. Last night on Military Channel on TV they had a
segment on the B-36. Since they repeat these programs for a week or so at a time you'all might look at channel and see the interesting segment. Big John ***************************** On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:27:00 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote: Kingfish wrote: On Oct 18, 9:07 am, Jay Honeck wrote: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...288877,00.html Maybe there *is* hope that we'll one day see a B-36 fly again... -- I've had the same thought, but it'd take somebody with Bill Gates' deep pockets to get a Peacemaker back in the air. Uh... What's the fuel burn rate of six 4360's & 4 J47s at T/O power? Dudley? I'd have to flip the ole'whizz wheel a bit on that one but my gut feeling is that it's slightly above my pay grade :-)) |
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Let's get THIS at Oshkosh '08!
Big John wrote:
Many times I made practice runs on B-36's in the Air Defense Command. On almost every occasion they had one or more engines shut down. Maybe they were just saving fuel ) Think their 20+ hour missions did not abort unless a lot of engines had to be shut down. Forget the number now. It took so many hours to get the bird ready and launched they did not abort except for a safety of flight problem. A friend of mine who was in SAC flew in B-36's and said it was unusual to complete a mission with all engines still running and that no one got concerned about it unless more than 3 failed or all 3 on one side failed. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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