[ARC5] OT: B-36 Nuke Article

[Phillip Carpenter]

The Navy's blimp fleet also had a distinctive low frequency prop roar to them.

Phillip W4RTX

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> On Nov 7, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>    I remember a few flyovers of B-36s here. No other aircraft ever sounded like that. Hard to describe the low frequency beating. Even one was rather frightening and a formation would have shaken everything. Must have been around the mid 1950s. I found a recording on the web somewhere but it was evidently from the movie "Strategic Air Command" and gives only a suggestion of what the real thing was like.
> 
>> On 11/7/2016 6:52 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
>> OK,  OT,  but I’m pretty sure nobody will object…..
>> 
>> An interesting article came across on of the security newsletters I
>> receive at the office concerning the discovery of a fake nuke from a
>> B-36 crash in 1950.
>> 
>> http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20161107-canada-to-investigate-object-that-could-be-a-nuke-lost-in-1950
>> 
>> In case you have trouble with the link in the word “interview” in the
>> paragraph “The co-pilot of the flight explained in a 1998 interview
>> <http://users.waymark.net/proweb/brokenarrow3.htm>”,  here’s the URL
>> 
>> http://users.waymark.net/proweb/brokenarrow3.htm
>> 
>> I just read the indicated page (I’m at work),  but there’s a lot more on
>> the web site.
>> 
>> I’ve always admired the B-36 but have only seen one at the old Greater
>> Southwest Air Museum in Grapevine TX in the very early 1980’s (which I
>> believe is now at a nearby museum).   The events of the article occurred
>> 8 years to the day before I was born!
>> 
>> 73 Mark K3MSB
>> 
>> 
>> 
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