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  • Heck, I want to see the camera.

  • Imissbritishleyland.Absolutley­!Everywhere on YT are coarse,abusive,opinionated and biassed remarks to be found.I suggest that all the foul-mouthed swine who post such comments go to one site and one site only where they can abuse one another to their hearts' content.Let us enjoy these films without insults,please.

  • That is bullshit! This plane, despite its thick wing could NOT go to 58,000 feet! 45,000 is typically the top altitude for this airplane. No crewman has ever posted on Youtube about going above about FL410. At that altitude, the R4360's would need nearly 12 pounds of boost just to produce power equal to sea level; That simply didn't happen and as such this plane didn't have that sort of power!

  • 6 turning, 4 burning. The B-36. Beautiful ship. =Stefan=

  • I also remember the B-36 You couldnt see them, but you sure could hear them!!! My favorite heavy bomber, followed by the B-17, and B-29 My favorite Fighter was the P-51 D Mustang, Powered by Rolls Royce Merlin

  • I was stationed at Biggs AFB in El Paso Texas.. we had the LAST B36 and it

    had a flyover as it was put to rest, I think in 1957 or 58. We also had the oldest

    B52, .. Thanks for your video.

  • My God....I remember that sound lying in bed at night as a child. It terrified me....

  • @ROCKSTARCRANE Back in the 1950's, when sanity still prevailed in America, it was called "the sound of freedom"

  • @amateurphilosopher Like you, I remember the sound. I lived near the SAC base at Altus, OK. I love that powerful drone.

    I so wish our leaders had the pride in America that we had then.

  • A Monster..

  • I love seeing all of the pictures of that beautiful bird I piloted for thousands of hours some 60 years ago. It was truly a great transtitional aircraft that served its country well during those early "cat and mouse" years of the cold war. Conceived after Pearl Harbour with a RFP signed by FDR to fly 10,000 miles with a 10,000# bomb load without refueling--of course, in its 10 engine configuration it was capable of much more.

  • Werent these things conceived in case Brittain fell to Hitler? 6 turning, 4 burning

  • 6 a'turnin, 2 a'burnin

  • love these planes thumbs up if you agree

  • Is anyone else tired of looking at archive footage of aircraft, only to find the comments full of bigoted, nationalist, unintelligent comments/arguments? I am.

    Great footage of an interesting aircraft.

  • The Aluminum Overcast....:)

  • They've been playing a great program on cable (NatGeo?) about the first US "broken arrow" incident, which involved a B-36 crashing in Canada. The aircraft supposedly had a Mark IV nuclear weapon which may or may not have included its plutonium core.  Anyway, there are some great clips of this awesome aircraft in that show.

  • @LesbianVampireLover I've seen it and there are some great cockpit interiors shot inside the J model at the Air Force Museum. Late model Peacemakers were called "featherweights" because the retractable gun turrets were deleted to save weight.

  • Wait till you see what we have today. Bomb voyage.HaHaHaHa. BOOOOM!

  • yeah, lets call a colt 45 a happy stick.  and anthrax love dust. nothing peaceful about incinerating 1.2 million people with one plane. this plane is way to big for its payload.

  • @cobrachoppergirl: Its (maximum) 86,000lb internal paylload is unrivalled to this day for a US bomber...more than a B-52, B-1, or a B-2. (Only the B-1 can carry more, when utilizing external hardpoints).

    Pretty hefty for 1950.

  • I like this plane, it's amazing.

  • Peacemaker was the perfect name for this aircraft. It helped keep peace between the US and USSR during the Cold War and it's success is that never saw combat. Indeed, it was the Peacemaker.

  • Why not call it peacemaker after all those you desire peace must prepare for war.

  • how cynical to call that thing peacemaker ^^

  • Convair made the B-36, first designed in San Diego.. Don't mess with California!

  • $3,701,000

  • The B-36 is the coolest ,Biggest Bad Ass that kept the USSR in check in 1949 .1957 IKE had a big stick for the USSR the B-36 TEXACO made the GAS and TEXAS made the aircraft. . Don't mess with TEXAS!

  • b29,b36 and b52 forever

  • @kjsh987 I've read the B-52 is the best bomber ever built...don't forget the B-17, B-24 and Lancaster, all of them war heros! Greetings from Argentina...

  • @kjsh987 :)

  • No european country was capable of conceiving and building the B36 bomber

  • @jerk

    The US had to build this crap because they were not able to produce a simple jet propulsion, what the Arado Blitz had already in 1944.

  • asshole what is combat record of arado? 0 yoou fucking jerk off I forgot we could have used B47 by 1947-48, B36 is better then any kraut aircraft that ever flew in fact you still cannot build bigger plane then this you sorry MF,s

  • @jerk

    All right, Jerk, everything that comes from USA is bigger: the motherfuckers, the assholes.

    , the child molesters...

    But the biggest plane comes from Europe, and if you don´t wast your money for some years you can buy a ticket and fly with it.

  • robin the asshole just about every aviation record is owned by americans starting with Wright Brothers, Biggest aircraft ever built ,american fastest, american, highest flying, american

  • @jerk

    Jerk? Jerk?!

    He´s got an heart attack. Couldn´t stand the heat.

  • asshole do you have job? guess not still living home with parents

  • @jerk

    I have a job.

    I have a home.

    I have parents

    3 things you don´t have.

    Sometimes I feel pity for you.

  • your job living off your parents, your home your parents basement,

  • @robinhood48 why are you saying this?

  • europe leads the world in child molestation and inbreding

  • lol

  • @jers59

    Who told you that? Fox news or your local tele-evangelist preacher?

    Had I not known better I'd sat you were a troll, because they usually get a kick from posting bs, but since you're a rapidly decaying old redneck fart, I believe you grew up living some sheltered existence never travelling anywhere and just doing the same shit all day long.

    The Amish people and other sects, including trailer trash that screw their siblings are the epitome of inbred.

    Troglodyte cretin.

  • @SteveSpicerPortsmuth village idiot I been to more countries then you have brain cells, just came back today from UK and Italy was in Plymouth 12 days ago, yeovil, cheltenham, london, Rome, Lake Como, by the way Im agnostic, bet you are scrounger living in council housing in birmingham with pakis as neighbors

  • @robinhood48 The B-36 had some flaws but it kept the peace during the korean war & after.(I flew as an engineer on them) This was our biggest bluff, and we won! The Jackpot was the eventual breakup of the Soviet system, and peace. What did the Arado do?

  • Couldn't this plane - or even the B-60 - have been used as land based long range antisubmarine patrol aircraft after phased out as strategic bomber? I was thinking about this because with its 10.000 miles the B-36 had a very long range, and could have done trips starting from Texas,following the coast line until Maine and coming back without REVO, right ?

  • Jerk.

    That´s your dream, to fly this crap and bomb civilians.

    Will not come true.

  • If ww2 lasted 2 more years we could have had B36,s taking off from the U.S. fly across the atlantic and smash german industry and cities to oblivion each bomber carried 20 tons of bombs the worlds greatest prop aircraft ever built amd largest production aircraft

  • I remember these planes passing overhead at very high altitudes when I was a child. They made a deep bass sound that would rattle the dishes in the cabinets.

  • @PistolPete2

    I would so love to see one of those bastards restored to flight condition and toured around to airshows... God that would be sweet.

  • @PistolPete2 really?

  • How could the piston engines work above 50,000 feet?

  • The engines pushed the concept of turbosupercharging further than ever before. It is still a fair question how a propeller could to do its work, given how thin the air is 50,000 feet.

  • @osgood54 You asked how a 36 could fly over 50,000 feet. The Magneto lines were encased in pressurized covers to prevent electrical sparking & shorts. I was a flight engineer on them.

  • @mhpfiddler -- Too bad they didn't go ahead with this project when my dad first saw it on the Convair drawing board in 1941.

    This thing could drop the weight of two B-17's out of it's bomb bay.

    And it could fly a mile higher than the German Me109.

    Didn't it also have an early "stealth" anti-radar device where it could spread aluminum foil pieces out in the air, too?

  • @nesokretep Aluminum foil strips were employed by the British to confuse German radar. It was called "Window" and was not "stealth" technology.

  • One of the - if not the - most awesome aircraft ever built!

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