The Cold War Superplane That Carried US Nukes | Story Of The Convair B-36 | Timeline
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- The unique story of the development of the B-36 the United States' very long range nuclear bomber.
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I got the 1/72 scale model of this plane for Christmas when I was 12. I’m now 49 and it still hangs from the ceiling in my parent’s basement.
I am too. Gonna have to search one out. Just to be on the safe side😆
@@christopherprisco8690what a basement?
"6 turnin' 4 burnin'" is still one of the coolest sayings in aviation to this day.
2 burning, 2 turning, 2 smoking, 2 joking, and 2 unaccounted for.
@@MultiSweeney1 this too
@@MultiSweeney1 choking*
Wright-Patterson AFB Museum has one. HUGE! Not as big as Rosie O'Donnell's ego...but still massive!
I had the honor of being a crew member on a B36 from 1953 to 1956 then they were replaced by the b47 and the b52
I remember learning about that plane as it was a badass piece of machinery.
Check out one of the planes that replaced it the B-58 Hustler. IMHO the most beautiful bomber ever built.
It certainly was!
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'm old enough to remember when school desks were radiation and blast repellent.
Are you implying they're not? 🤔
@@MrSatyre1... they don't make em' like they used to
@@MrSatyre1
Not anymore, those were Cold War era desks.
I’m so old they didn’t have history class yet when I was in school.
Duck and Cover?
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 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!”
How come is it that the planes from the WWII and early Cold War eras are either absolutely beautiful, or downright hideous and horrifying?
They're from the age of Art Deco.
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.
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
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
Thank you I was wondering the same thing.
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
born in 62, I remember school desks were very heavy, definitely would sort of protect you from falling ceiling debris LOL.
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.
Great documentary. Very informative. Thank you.
I have a manifold pressure gauge for the 5th and 6th engine from a b36
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.
Ok Karen
Have you guys posted this before? I've seen it but I don't remember where.
I've seen this before too.
It's old. I've seen it on some of the aviaton channels.
I was wondering if I had watched it at the SAC museum. My kids definitely wouldn't have let me sit long enough to watch it.
It's really cool
Nice echo
Wish timeline would stop the irritating symphony always playing
They do need to make it more subtle and less distracting.
Very interesting
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?
Northrup responded to this RFQ with the XB35 flying wing.
Crazy years!
Please show me years that weren't crazy.
B - 3 6 ✈️ 👍
Forgot the B58
If this happened between 2017 and 2021 there'd be demands to nuke tornadoes.
What’s with the echo
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.
12:57 Powerball
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?)
The plane build for war that was never used In a war
3:11 lmao
"Peacemaker" carrying A bombs 😂😂. Yes, yes....j/k.
i hope everyone can see the irony in this one 😂
The irony 😂😂
The narrator recorded his voice in the shower.
Excuse me. Farmers with limited mechanical skills. Dude what planet are you from??????
A warplane should never have peace in their title.
Did data from star trek narrate this? It honestly sounds like him
Its name is a little ironic 😂😂
Nothing new to say didn't watch much. Severe rehash.
Just can't handle that voice :/
Can't stand that preachy narrative. Yugck
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
What a garbled bit of nonsense! WW2 did start in 1939, or 1931, or 1937, depending on your take on it. Most of the rest was incoherent
Omg boaring
was the narrator recorded in a church?