For those of you old enough to remember Jimmy Stewart in "Strategic Air Command" in the 1950's, here is a clip from that movie. Like many of the other films of that period, Stewart played a major league baseball player in the Post WWII period who is called back to active duty service to join SAC. Anyway, whoever sent out this clip found some good pictures of the interiors and exterior of the B-36. Remember, "Six Turnin' and Four Burnin"".....the six props and the four jets that were hung out on the wing to help the production models get off the ground. The B-36 was designed during WWII when the US thought that England would be lost and we would be fighting the Germans from the US and Canada. 20It was designed to take the War to European cities from this side of the Atlantic.
Last of the piston-engined bombers…a behemoth, Worth it for the sound - six piston and four jet engines. You will also see Jimmy Stewart on the jump seat.....Look at all those instruments and engine controls at the Flight Engineer station. Also note that the Co-Pilot controls the Jet engines while the Flight Engineer controls the pistons. Makes me want to go watch the movie again (ha ha).
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Last of the piston-engined bombers…a behemoth, Worth it for the sound - six piston and four jet engines. You will also see Jimmy Stewart on the jump seat.....Look at all those instruments and engine controls at the Flight Engineer station. Also note that the Co-Pilot controls the Jet engines while the Flight Engineer controls the pistons. Makes me want to go watch the movie again (ha ha).
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