It was designed for but arrived a year too late to make it into WWII, so it was re-forged into the bridge between the Prop Era B-29s and the Jet Age B-52s. Somewhat forgotten today, the B-36 Peacemaker was in service for less than fifteen years before it was phased out. Seventy six years ago yesterday, one fell out of the sky over Canada; you can read about the incident here at This Day in Aviation.
Anyway, it's a beautiful plane in its own ungainly way. Glad we never had to use them for their main purpose.
Beast of a plane, but I'd love to have gone up in one. Once.
With the retractable gun turrets, it has a certain sci-fi vibe.
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