Convair B-36 Peacemaker makes low pass over Fort Worth neighborhood

[webcamfann]

12 years later, while flying C-130s in the Air Force, I flew with an Aircraft Commander who had flown in an RB-36 squadron with Francis Gary Powers. He said that they flew well above 50,000 feet with only their jet engines running at that altitude. He also told me that they routinely flew over China and Russia with impunity in the mid-50's until the U-2 took over that mission.

[webcamfann]

At age-12 in 1953, I could hear the awesome drone of a B-36 flying overhead higher than 30,000 feet while lying in bed in the middle of the night. It was common then, and during the day, I used to watch them flying overhead at high altitude with a telescope. I could always hear them first before I could see them. In 1955, my dad was stationed on the island of Guam and I got many close looks and an inside tour at Anderson Air Force Base. What an amazing bird !!

[Seesfar1]

Add It did rattle the house and dishes. sorry Can't spell today. :P

[Seesfar1]

My mother said that you had to wait for it to pass over you before you could talk on the phone.

And I did rattle the house and dishes. I got to see one back in the mid 60's setting on the Tarmac

at the old Greater Southwest Airport. My dad before he passed that you don't realize how big it until you're standing underneath it. Truly awesome Footage.

[hankyhoyo]

Awesome footage!

[Treetop64]

Wish one would have flown by my apartment like that. Sure would have broken the monotony around here, as well as a few windows...

[doikus]

my Grandfather William P. Easly was on the design and flight team as a matter of fact he broke both ankles on a bad landing, he once told me it was like a flying power plant,its hard to believe the Air Force was plannng to put nuclear reactors in them for a time IMPRESSIVE BIRD!!!!!!!

[kolbpilot]

Pretty damn low.

[EIBBOR2654]

Hey thanks, I was stationed at Carswell but it was long after the B-36 was gone. I worked B-52Ds when I was there. Was that neighborhood part of Base Housing? I remember the houses looked the same when I was there back in 1975. I was told that there was a B-36 in Lake Worth at the end of the runway, but don't know how true it is. When I was there the F-16 was being built across the runway and the day I got there they bellied an F16 in. I still Miss that B-52. SAC Trained Killer Forever!

[speedskiff2]

@EIBBOR2654 that was the 1st B-36 crash and wreckage was pulled from lake. Attributed to some props going into reverse on takeoff.

[EIBBOR2654]

@speedskiff2 Thanks man, when I was stationed there I was told that it was still there but I never saw it. I kind of blew it off as a roomer as I just couldn't see the AF letting something like that sit at the bottom of a lake without an investigation. I'm still in but in an Air National Guard unit with the Air Circus Command. God I miss SAC and the Heavies! Hate the Lawn Dart F-16.

[powergirl901]

very nice!

[raynus1]

I can't imagine the noise....it would be a sweet symphony of 168 cylinders and four J-47's.

[kblackav8or]

Wow

[ricksclick]

I heard and saw the awsome B-36s when we lived under the flight path to Davis Monthon AFB in the early 1950s in Tucson AZ. I have never heard another airplane that sounded like the B-36. You could hear them coming for 2 minutes before they were overhead. They were fazing the B-36 out and the B-47 was constantly going overhead and doing touch and go approaches with their drouge parachutes dragging behind. What a time I lived in.

[railcar123]

Looks like the trees were moving after it went by.

[TheZenRider1]

I wonder if that was "Bud" Holland at the controls... I know that the era this was shot in was about 15 years before his time; but the move sounds like his, or maybe he got his from this guy!

[CorrieBergeron]

Somebody's birthday, no doubt. :-)

[xxchinookxx]

Damn!...What envy...I was born in 1957 in El Paso,Tx near Biggs AFB with B-36 Bombers there, but NEVER ever saw one. I was in a crib if they ever flew by......

[Superstation2000]

That's history!!!

The time of big and fast propeller-driven planes I love it!

[SWARLCPL]

My father was a crew member on the B-36 at Carswell. Even looks like our street!

Thanks!

[HunterR909]

I think I'd pass about being on top of any roof while that thing passed that low overhead.

[toddi1971]

Das war mit Ansage, einwandfrei!

[jgstargazer]

I would'nt mind being on top of the house and having my hat blown off . Just its way of saying "hi" as it passed by.

[themagma83]

piece of history

[HrvojeKL]

Great! Too bad there is no sound...