Peacemaker

[Ian Warren]

[Kiwia1spad]

Ahhh the Peacemaker, America's Big Stick of the late 40's and 50's. She could fly at 50,000 above the piston engined fighters and some of the early jets too, What an amazing aeroplane. I always liked the quote used by one of the Presidents, Walk softly but carry a big stick.. I think the -36 was a big enough stick

[chopper_nut]

Love this aeroplane. Did a good job of keeping the reds away until the B52 showed up.

[Charl]

Saw the Virtavia announcement & thought this might pop up soon.
Looked at the first screen on an iPad earlier, and my it does look good...

Big Stick indeed, I am very tempted by this behemoth, if only to see if it fits inside my sim!

[Ian Warren]

I really would love to see this aircraft rebuilt , both real and simulation ..it s so in a league of its own , hey look at that cloud and moon shots all in one

[IslandBoy77]

Yes indeed, a great aircraft. It would've most certainly been interesting to see how it fared against the 262 had it made it into WWII. All those guns look impressive, and it's ceiling is certainly very high, but can they hit anything from that height other than "the ground"?

[Noddy]

One monster aircraft.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (IslandBoy77 @ Jan 30 2013,9:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes indeed, a great aircraft. It would've most certainly been interesting to see how it fared against the 262 had it made it into WWII. All those guns look impressive, and it's ceiling is certainly very high, but can they hit anything from that height other than "the ground"?

It would have been interesting to see how it would have feared in the face of 262s , the bombing was found to be very accurate but again that was in peace time trials - far more sophisticated tho 'radar bombing , the same was achieved with B-17s with the famed Norden bombsite , hence where they got the "pickle in the barrel" from 25,000ft but in wartime was a how different kettle of fish .... what the heck with the 36 real term carpet bombing would have a real meaning .

QUOTE (Noddy @ Jan 31 2013,6:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

One monster aircraft.

Tunnels in the wings to fix the engines mid flight altho not read of them being used ... i would'nt want to try it

[Splitpin]

Awesome shots Ian .... almost needed a "pacemaker" when i saw them. I love this giant as well ...great work.
Sorry i havent been here much ... just got a bit on at the moment ...BUT ....Arl be bark

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jan 31 2013,11:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Arl be bark

Thanks Marty , now replacing Arnie as Jimmy Stewart .. movie contracts .. now were do i go

PS: You don't happen to have a 1:72 scale plastic kitset of the Peacemaker by any chance do ya ......

[Charl]

QUOTE

PS: You don't happen to have a 1:72 scale plastic kitset of the Peacemaker by any chance do ya ...... [/quote]Whew that's a lot of plastic... wingspan almost a metre!

I was reading about this bird: crew of 13!
That's one per engine, and still leaves enough for a pilot, navigator/copilot, and flight engineer.


EDIT: Of course there was going to be one out there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru3zoCBaCCs

Last edited by Charl on Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jan 31 2013,1:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Whew that's a lot of plastic... wingspan almost a metre!

Wonder if i should ask for a 1:48 then , ... I ve seen that Video , the engineering in it is just WOW ! .. to get it to fly slow , just brilliant

[Kiwia1spad]

how bout this one for a scale model... http://www.carlb-rcplanes.com/B36constpic.jpg

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Kiwia1spad @ Jan 31 2013,8:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

how bout this one for a scale model...

That s the very same fella Charl shown , obviously in the build .. Great find KiwiSpadman .... that really gives some idea the work the has gone into it ....SO COOL!

[Ian Warren]

Just being doing the math , on a average .. 180 pounds for a male Xs that by 3 by X that again by 129 500pounders adds up just under 400 people carried .



FSX - FSX Modern Military
FSX US Air Force Convair B-36 Texture Sets

Name: b_36_update.zip
Size: 8,863,398 Date: 02-01-2013 Downloads: 132

FSX US Air Force Convair B-36 Texture Sets. Here are four new or updated texture sets for the Virtavia B36 Peacemaker. You need to have the latest version installed that contains the model.C folder (no tip jets) for the B-36B texture set to work. The textures and bump files have been updated since last published for FSX and FS2004 in 2008/9. These add more realistic wrinkling and reworked major fuselage bump maps. Texture.8AF represents a B-36H-5-CF 50-1092 from the 11th Bombardment Wing, Carswell AFB, about 1953. Texture.B36B represents an early B36B-1-CF, 44-92041, of the 7th Bombardment Wing on deployment to Alaska in 1949, for cold weather testing. Texture.15AF represents a B-36D-1-CF, 44-92065 a B-36B brought up to B-36D standards, with the 326th Bomb. Sqdn., 92nd Bomb. Wing based at Spokane in around 1955. Texture.SAC represents a B-36F-5-CF 49-2683, of the 6th Bomb. Wing at Walker AFB in 1956/7, showing the white anti-radiation paint hand-sprayed on the underside of the remaining B-36's late in their service life. By Dave Quincey.