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C Davies contributed another fine aircraft model to 3D Content Central.
Despite the period-correct hokey music, this is an excellent clip of the B-36 preparing for take-off and then in flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZSpqFPSK_c
Talk about big – “The B-36 was the largest mass-produced piston engined aircraft ever made and the largest combat aircraft ever built, although there have been larger military transports.” (from this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36)
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Is it really called a peacemaker???
Looks like its called a new a-hole maker. lol Gonna blast the enimy a new a-hole. lmao
Nice model
It was nicknamed the Peacemaker. Convair, the maker of the plane, proposed the name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36#cite_note-1), but if was not official. Many aircraft are better known by their nicknames than their “official’ designations. Using such questionable names for war machines continues to this day.
Ironically, the B-36 never dropped a single bomb or fired a shot at an enemy, although it did manage to drop (and lose in the ocean) one nuclear device as well as dropping another by accident in the New Mexican desert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36#Notable_incidents_and_accidents). So, it’s hole-making activities were quite limited.