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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: B-36 and the Flying Wing (nostalgia)
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Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 00:50:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 00:50:32 1984
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>> At the local 'junk-movie-station' they played a boring movie tonite

>> 	STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND (1955)  James Stewart, June Allyson.
>> 	A baseball player is forced to give up his career to serve
>> 	active duty with the U.S. Air Force.

>> ...In the movie, our hero was promoted to then fly the "new" B-49",
>> "a plane with wings so smooth that the mechanics had to wear special
>> soft-soled shoes to walk on them".

Yeah, a great period piece on the B-36.  I think there are a few
around yet.  Doesn't the Confederate Air Force (that's what they
call themselves, they show up at the EAA fly-ins in Oshkosh) have
one that's operational?

It wasn't a "new B-49", by the way, it was the B-47, which I believe
was the US's 1st all-jet bomber, and was superseded only by the B-52.
Didn't you build the plastic model when you were a kid?  I guess it
depends on when you were a kid.
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