[ARC5] B-36J Radio Operator Position

[Bob Macklin]

March AFB, Riverside Ca was a B-36 base.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: "john rose" <brokenthumb at live.com>; "arc5 mail list" 
<arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] B-36J Radio Operator Position


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "john rose" <brokenthumb at live.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] B-36J Radio Operator Position
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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.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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