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From: cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP (Jeff Williams)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: B-36 and the Flying Wing (nostalgia)
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Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 09:13:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 09:13:37 1984
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There are still (I believe) three B-36 aircraft in existance.
One is at Ft. Worth, Texas, one at Chanute AFB, Illinois, and
the last at the U. S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB,
Ohio.

In 1972, the Air Force sold TWO of these rare machines for scrap.

There is a group that is trying to get permission to fly the
Ft. Worth aircraft, and they are actually restoring it (or were
about 4 years ago).

As for the movie "Strategic Air Command," the new airplane was
the Boeing B-47, the first swept-wing jet bomber in the USAF.
The reference to the B-49 was probably a slip of the digit.

				Jeff Williams
				AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Ill
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