Close to midnight on February 13, 1950, the radio operators at Offutt Air Force Base received a disturbing distress call that ...
The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was unlike any aircraft before it - a massive six-engine piston bomber with four jet engines strapped on for extra thrust. Built at the dawn of the Cold War, it was ...
Summary: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was the largest mass-produced piston-engined bomber ever, developed during WWII and serving as a nuclear deterrent during the early Cold War. -It boasted a ...
The dangers of using atomic energy to operate military aircraft. Robert Bernier Anything seemed possible during the Atomic Age: (clockwise, from top left) the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, cutaway ...