[ARC5] B-36J Radio Operator Position

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "john rose" <brokenthumb at live.com>
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> This site has some large pages on the B-36 and YB90. There 
> is also a link to a recording of one in flight.
> http://www.air-and-space.com/b-36%20survivors.htm
>
> Plan your fall travels around Castle Air Museum's Open 
> Cockpit Day Which is September 1 this year.
> http://www.castleairmuseum.org/events.html
>

   I remember very well fly overs of Los Angeles of B-36's 
when I was a kid.  The recording gives no more than a 
suggestion of what these monsters sounded like. A 
frightening sound like nothing else.  I remember well the 
large formations of all sorts of aircraft over Detroit just 
after the war. I heard much later they were on the way to 
being scrapped.  I have no idea of how many aircraft but 
they kept coming for probably half an hour or more. It 
sounded like continuous thunder but even that was nothing 
like a B-36. Perhaps its was partly knowing the significance 
of those aircraft and the weapons they were intended to 
carry.  What strange things people find to do.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com