Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a strategic bomber that was built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36...

The development of the Convair B-36 strategic bomber began in 1941 with the XB-36, which was intended to meet the strategic needs of the US Army Air Forces...

land-based transport aircraft ever built, and was developed from the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber, sharing the wings and some other structures with it. The...

United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying a Republic F-84 Thunderflash parasite fighter in...

weapons for Cold War–era deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36 Peacemaker. Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and...

on the River Dnieper that had been captured by German forces. The B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber was at one point in the 1950s intended to function...

commander of Strategic Air Command (SAC), for being inferior to the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and having little capacity for further improvement, while requiring...

competition such as the North American XB-45, Convair XB-46 and Martin XB-48, a formal contract for 10 B-47A bombers was signed on 3 September 1948. This...

F-86K Boeing B-47 Stratojet Boeing KB-50J Superfortress Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter Chase XC-123A Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair NB-36 Curtiss XF-87...

Lockheed B-35 – Northrop B-36 Peacemaker – Convair B-36G Peacemaker – Convair (redesignated B-60) B-37 – Lockheed (redesignated from B-34B) B-38 Flying...

Boeing B-50 Superfortress Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter Boeing XF8B Boeing XB-44 Superfortress Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair XC-99...

non-bomber variants Production figure includes AEW variant Production figure includes trainers Production figure includes reconnaissance variants Andrade...

nothing like the old Convair B-36 he is used to. The film features good aerial footage of both the B-47 and the B-36. The majority of B-47 scenes were filmed...

pounds (4,500 kg) bombs that had been developed for the massive Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber but had never been used. The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force...

the MiG-17's development cycle (such as the Boeing B-50 Superfortress or Convair B-36 Peacemaker, which were both still powered by piston engines). It...

Convair OA-10 Convair A-41 Convair A-44 Convair B-36 Convair NB-36 Convair B-58 Hustler Convair C-131 Convair F-7 Sea Dart Convair F-92A Convair F-102 Delta...

aircraft. There was apparently some interest in using it on the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber, but the 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major four-bank...

AN/APG-33 radar (derived from the AN/APG-3, which directed the Convair B-36 Peacemaker's tail guns) and a Sperry A-1C computing gunsight. Due to the short...

Federal Bureau of Investigation. 13 February A U.S. Air Force Convair B-36B Peacemaker, 44-92075, of the 436th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, in transit...

monitor radiation levels after nuclear weapons tests. B-36 Peacemaker Reconnaissance versions of the B-36 were used by SAC throughout the 1950s. RB-36D carried...

until later. In June 1951, the wing began converting to the Convair RB-36D Peacemaker. Later, B-36J models were assigned to the wing and it began maintaining...

Wolfhound – Dornier C-147 – de Havilland Canada C-767 – Boeing C-880 – Convair The "D" sequence is assigned to ground control stations for UAVs. D-1 –...

partially by inter-service rivalries, as the feat proved that the Convair B-36 Peacemaker strategic bombers of the United States Air Force (the existence...

bomber; Convair B-36 Peacemaker – Cold War heavy bomber Convair B-58 Hustler – Cold War supersonic bomber Douglas XB-19 – heavy bomber Douglas B-23 Dragon –...

short second, upper deck to provide increased passenger accommodation. Variants of the 747 remained the largest airliners flying for well over thirty years...

Warwick Avro Vulcan Boeing B-47 Stratojet Boeing B-50 Superfortress Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair B-58 Hustler Handley Page...

B-29D, which had become the B-50 in December 1945, was first delivered to SAC in June 1948. This was followed by SAC's first Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber...

the 28th's Convair B-36 Peacemakers with the new all-jet B-52 Stratofortress. The last B-36 left Ellsworth on 29 May 1957 and the first B-52 arrived sixteen...

was that of twenty-one Convair B-36 Peacemaker strategic bombers of the 11th Bomb Wing for eight days in June 1952. Boeing B-29 Superfortress and the...

of long-range escort of Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers, later Boeing B-50 Superfortress and Convair B-36 Peacemakers as newer aircraft came into operation...