When combined with the pilots, they brought the aircraft’s total crew to fifteen. Even this was only for the standard B-36 variant; for the strategic reconnaissance version, the crew swelled to ...

This footage shows a Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircraft making a low pass over Fort ... Kleinwechter, Jr., the flight crew was reportedly showing off for a firefighter convention visiting the ...

The Convair B-36 was soon to be obsolete ... even personnel to supplement the bomber's nine-man crew. One drawing shows the pods in a photo-reconnaissance configuration, complete with cameras ...

With a wingspan of 240 feet, the B-36 instantly became the largest bomber ever mass-produced. The B-36 “Peacemaker,” the largest warplane ever constructed, first took to the skies more than ...

a huge Convair B-36 bomber that was modified for nuclear propulsion research and meant to be flown by a crew of five. The X-plane that followed, the X-7, was its opposite in every way: tiny and ...