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Convair NB-36H Nuclear Test Aircraft. (U.S. Air Force) 20 July 1955: At Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, the Convair NB-36H Nuclear Test Aircraft, serial number 51-5712, made its first flight. In the late 1940s engineers began working on an aircraft that could be powered by a nuclear reactor.
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The project was to use a Convair B-36 bomber as a testbed aircraft, and though one NB-36H was modified during the early stages of the project, the program was canceled before the actual X-6 and its nuclear reactor engines were completed. The X-6 was part of a larger series of programs, costing US$7 billion in all, that ran from 1946 through 1961.
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Convair XC-99 Convair NB-36H Convair X-6: Developed into: Convair YB-60: The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a retired strategic bomber that was built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built.
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Convair B-36 Peacemaker The Convair B-36 Peacemaker is the largest piston-powered combat aircraft ever built. Powered by six radial and four jet engines, it bridged the gap between WWII.
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The Convair NB-36H was a bomber that carried a nuclear reactor. It was also known as the "Crusader". [1] It was built from a B-36 that had been damaged by a tornado. It was created for the Nuclear Powered Aircraft program, or the NPA, to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber.
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Convair's B-36 was significantly larger than its predecessors and was two-thirds longer (162 feet) than the B-29. The aircraft's wingspan of 230 feet (70.1 meters) is the widest of any combat aircraft in history. Not even the Boeing 747 reached such spans. The massive aircraft was powered by six Pratt & Whitney R-4360 engines in a 'pusher.
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Sometimes known as the Crusader, the NB-36 was intended to prove the feasibility of carrying a nuclear reactor in flight, towards an eventual goal of a nuclear-powered aircraft with unlimited endurance.
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The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was a larger than life aircraft in almost every way, but for such a dramatic aircraft, its 1949 - 1959 career was rather brief and underwhelming.. Convair NB-36H flying nuclear reactor testbed in flight seen from rear right . Convair XB-36 as it prepares for a taxi test through a grass field .
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Following the aforementioned modifications, the B-36 Peacemaker was officially renamed the Convair NB-36H, also known as "The Crusader". Between the summer of 1955 and 1957, the aircraft made 47 test flights, many of them with the R-1 reactor on, but not with the aim of feeding the engines, but as a way to test and collect data on the.
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Die Convair B-36 „Peacemaker"war ein US-amerikanischerLangstreckenbombermit sechs Kolbenmotoren, der bei späteren Varianten noch mit vier zusätzlichen Strahltriebwerkenausgerüstet wurde. Er war der größte jemals von der US Air Forcegeflogene Bomber.
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While nations like Russia continue to struggle with fielding nuclear-propulsion in missiles, the United States was already testing a nuclear-powered bomber all the way back in 1955, in the form of.
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Convair Country: United States Manufactured: 1946 to: 1954 ICAO: B-36 Price: US$4.1 million (1946) Performance Weights Dimensions Avionics: Engine: 6x Pratt & Whitney R-4360-53 Wasp Major & 4 General Electric J47 turbojet engines, 5,200 lbf each Piston Power: 3,800 horsepower Max Cruise Speed: 378 knots 700 Km/h Approach Speed (Vref):
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Other unique variants of the B-36 included the NB-36 radiation research aircraft and XC-99 transport model.. 62-65, Convair B-36 FICON, NB-36H. Winchester, Jim. Military Aircraft of the Cold War. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2006, p. 48-49, Convair B-36 FICON. Aircraft | Design | Ask Us | Shop | Search: About.
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The B-36 entered into service with the United States Air Force in 1949, able to push itself and 86,000 pounds of bombs to 40,000 feet.. The Convair Crusader NB-36H was specially constructed to not only carry a fully operational reactor into the sky, but to also test shielding designed to protect pilots and crew from radiation. The front.
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The only proven airframe large enough to carry the massive reactor and Heat Transfer system was the Convair's B-36 Peacekeeper Bomber. The Peacemaker started to enter front line service with the U.S. Air Force in late 1948 and at the time of the nuclear powered program, was the Strategic Air Command (SAC) main nuclear deterrent platform.
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Convair B-36 Peacemaker variants A B-36J Peacemaker in flight The development of the Convair B-36 strategic bomber began in 1941 with the XB-36, which was intended to meet the strategic needs of the US Army Air Forces, and later of the United States Air Force with its Strategic Air Command.