The B-36 was actually overpowered. Old B-29 pilots could not believe the neck snap when the locked brakes were released on a B-36. The 4 jets were added starting in 1949. The SIM image is a B model, the first series with armament. Some were painted red for arctic training flights. Easier to spot if they went down in snow.
Sweet an early B-36
Apparently the tails fell off so they had to attach them with string..
One is at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio.
+Brent Burzycki That's their idea of a radio antenna.
Bare metal is hard to get to look good in flight sims.
+Timothy Baskett just joking around…..
Thought so.
Looks like a B-29 on steroids or a Hybrid B-29. I know it's not but it looks like it.
I was just reading the history of the B-36. Very interesting.
The B-36 Peacemaker .
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US Air Forcer Bomber
That's the (bomb) er
wow !
Looks like a B36 Peace maker
All the pics of B-36 I've seen have jets in the end of the wings…
+Thomas Myers This was either a prototype or an early production model before they fitted them with the jet engines.
otherwise it couldnt take off 😛
The B-36 was actually overpowered. Old B-29 pilots could not believe the neck snap when the locked brakes were released on a B-36. The 4 jets were added starting in 1949. The SIM image is a B model, the first series with armament. Some were painted red for arctic training flights. Easier to spot if they went down in snow.