They have one of these in the SAC Museum along I-80 between Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska. There's a B-52 parked under one wing and at first you don't even notice it.
I remember my dad, who was an avionics mechanic on these titans for a period of his career, telling me he worked on the big “Six Turnin’ and four burnin’ Peacemaker!”
I marched past a B36 every day at Chanute AFB in Rantuoul Illinois while attending tech school for Environmental Control Systems, Aircraft. One day it started to hail and a bunch of us gathered under it to stay out of it 😅 It was a humongous but interesting creature April till August 1973
I have a Monogram 1/72 scale B 36 under construction right now! By far the largest plastic scale model that I have ever built/building! I found aftermarket paint masks, decals and a resin Mk 17 Hydrogen Bomb to go in the bomb bay! I probably paid 1000 times the price of original that sold in a late 70s hobby shop! I just HAD TO have it! I was probably lucky to find the complete kit on E Bay. I'm leaving in my will that my finished models will be donated to the Fagen Fighters Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota if they will take them.
This video is, by far, the most detailed and informative documentary regarding the history of the B-36 I have seen -and I’ve probably watched nearly a dozen other documentaries on this aircraft. Excellent work, incredible film and stills images, very good research and editing. Absolutely commendable historical work - Kudos!
I agree. Aesthetically, the B-36 was a monstrosity but the later B-47 was a beauty. Obviously there were real operations and technology issues being conquered.
Please go lighter on the hall effect reverb... Your highs are painfully sharp. I get you want to sound like being in a hangar but the audio was harsh, the video is great 👍
Man wonderful information and footage but,......what is going on with the narrator? It sounds like he's talkin through an audio recorder like on BioShock Infinite
I agree the audio is horrible. The video also seems odd...stretches everything out and makes it look bigger. I have seen a B-36 at the Pima County Air and Space Museum (if you are ever in the Tucson area I highly recommend it), and while it is a rather large aircraft, the video makes it look larger. As someone commented earlier, there is no way a B-52 fits under one of its wings. I know this because there are two B-52's parked right next to the B-36. The are very comparably sized aircraft
The narrator reminds me somewhat of either Drew Pearson or some other ‘40s era pseudo news reporter in his speech patterns. Can’t remember the others of that era.
I'm a minute in and already questioning the veracity of this video because they've shown several clips of the Berlin Wall, which was erected in August 1961. The B-36 was retired from service in 1959.
So now I've watched it. How disappointing! No mention at all of the addition of the four jet engines, though the footage alternates between clips of Peacemakers with them and without. Also, what happened to the teased (at the beginning) discussion of the funding battle between the Navy and Air Force? Then there's the narration, which someone else aptly described as sounding like it was recorded in someone's shower. That's nitpicking, but taken with the other issues, indicates a general lack of attention to detail that plagues this video of the legendary B-36.
thank goodness we've moved on to using drones for warfare! I mean, can you imagine trying to sneak up on an enemy with a plane the size of a small city?
If they never used RATO, they should have; then we have all major propulsion mthods accounted for. Either that, or we needed the turbo-prop version (B-37?)
Great video, but the narrator doesn’t seem like he’s in his element. I would offer up to the task and impersonate Christopher Walken, or a drunken Irishman. Surely the snooze factor would lessen.
WW2 started in 1940 ...some historians considered 1937 was started of WW2...Convair B-36 designed was not suitable for WW2 air operations & US air tasks...Convair B-36 capabilities weren't caused (cold War ) remains (cold)peaceful between two competitors, furiously poles ...1-two competitors transmitted their clashed from European countries to 3rd world countries by naive & agents deputies fingers of USA 🇺🇸 & USSR through several regional wars ...2- the USA realized its competitor's USSR was lugging behind USA capabilities since 1965...while USSR economic capabilities was destroying , continously exhausting when USSR in 1991 obviously admitted & confused...their weren't peace in 3rd world countries
