[Milsurplus] B-36 run-up

[Bob Wilder]

In the mid-1950's while stationed at Midway NAS we had three of these bad 
boy make emergency landing
on the island in one day, all with engine problems.  They are huge when 
flying over a city so you can imagine
what they looked like coming across an island less than a mile wide and 
about 2 miles long.  They had to touch down right at the very edge of the 
runway, throw all engines in full reverse thrust and when they stopped at 
the far end of the runway the nose gear was on the sand overrun.  One had 3 
or 4 engines shut down and came the last few hundred miles on the remaining 
engines and the jets.Just before touch down they started the bad engine and 
you could barely see the plane for all the black smoke as the engine slowly 
burned up




At 09:22 AM 3/16/2005 -0500, Clarence M. Owens wrote:






>I would love to have a scan of that document!  I remember B-36 fly-overs of
>the air shows in Niagara Falls back in the 50's and have been in utter awe
>of the B-36 when visiting the Air Force Museum.  What a beast!  Also, a
>unique sound, unlike any other plane I have heard pass overhead.
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>Clare Owens  N2RJB
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>Have a 14 page flight-line check-list that a bro-in-law* supplied
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>Seems non-coms jumped into those things on scramble & got
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>before the flight crews.  Those guys had to suit up which was a
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>* this neat guy, bless his heart, has trouble w. which end of a spark plug
>   goes in the hole.  And manual is a testimony to reducing huge tech
>   assignments to 'regular guys.'  This tabA-slotB biz once a cornerstone
>   of US' mfg. success.
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