[ARC5] OT: B-36 Nuke Article

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

It should not be hard to imagine the terror of people in London or Dresden (et al) at the sound of literally hundreds of bombers overhead in the process of approaching to offload their munitions!


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Subject: Re: [ARC5] OT: B-36 Nuke Article

Growing up in N.J. we would hear and see the Navy blimps on the horizon as they made their approach to Lakehurst N.A.S. At our summer place the B-36's would fly over at night and get every window pane and every piece of Mom's china vibrating at some frequency. I've always loved airplanes but that sound was un-nerving to a little kid.
 Jay KE6PPF

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From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Nov 7, 2016 9:42 am
Subject: Re: [ARC5] OT: B-36 Nuke Article

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

Broken Arrow - Copilot's Story - Waymark<http://users.waymark.net/proweb/brokenarrow3.htm>
users.waymark.net
Co-pilot of crashed nuclear bomber shares his memories of the first loss of a nuclear weapon.



>
> 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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