[ARC5] B-36J Radio Operator Position

[Bob Macklin]

The F-100 used a J-57 engine with an afterburner.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D C _Mac_ Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To: "WA7DIA/4 Jack Antonio" <scr287 at att.net>
Cc: "ARC-5 Mail List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] B-36J Radio Operator Position


> The use of AVGAS for the four J-47 engines was a big surprise to me!  The 
> J-47 jet engine was used in F-100, B-47, B-36, and other aircraft. The 
> site (http://92ndma.org/92bw/sixchurning.pdf) about the KC-97 tankers 
> states that the J-47 engines were specially modified to run on AVGAS to 
> simplify the B-36's fuel system.  The KC-97s had both AVGAS and jet fuel 
> tanks and could even transfer AVGAS from their own wing tanks to a 
> receiving aircraft.
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> My SAC career started in 1963 in B-52Fs at Carswell AFB, TX and lasted 
> about 3 1/2 years.
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> * (Since 30 Nov 53) *
> * k2gkk at hotmail.com *
> * Oklahoma City, OK *
> * USAF & FAA (Ret.) *
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>> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:14:25 -0400
>> From: scr287 at att.net
>> CC: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] B-36J Radio Operator Position
>>
>> On 6/11/2013 12:34 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> > Did the B-36 have two, different fuel systems?
>>
>> No, the J-47 engines burned the same avgas as the
>> R-4360s.
>>
>> I have a book, titled B-36 Photo Scrapbook, which
>> shows two different radio installations. The
>> earliest one is from the 1948-50 time frame and
>> depicts an early B-36B. The radio op position is
>> an AN/ARC-8, and is pretty uncluttered. There is
>> an AN/ARC-3 shown there as well. Along with what
>> is probably a BC-453 mounted alongside the desk.
>>
>> A later picture, from 1955, of an RB-36H,
>> shows the AN/ARC-8, but it looks like the HF radio
>> was installed more as an afterthought, nestled in and among ECM gear.
>>
>> Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4
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