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From: ths@lanl-a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: B-36
Message-ID: <12811@lanl-a.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 11:16:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 11:16:53 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Sep-84 12:08:54 EDT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In answer to the trivia question...the B-36 was named the "Peacemaker".
Someone mentioned that it had been used in the Korean war. I don't
believe this was so.

The design for the plane was started in 1942 when there was a distinct
possibility that England might be lost to the Nazis and Japan would
rule the Pacific. First flight was 1946 and the early versions did not
have the outboard jet engines. Take-off run was dramatically short
when lighly loaded but it could eat up 12,000 feet of runway at gross.

For those who mentioned other names...

Flying Fortress B-17
Superfortress B-29, B-50
Stratofortress B-52
Stratojet B-47