Fairchild NEPA 'Studies of Fourteen Nuclear-Powered Airplanes' (1952)

[flateric]

Found at OSTI

Studies of Fourteen Nuclear-Powered Airplanes (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV

A representative series of aircraft which could be powered by a relatively low-temperature liquid-coolant-cycle nuclear power plant are described. Present aircraft such as the B-36, B-52, and B-47 bombers as well as new designs were investigated. Design and performance characteristics of all the...

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[hesham]

Amazing find my dear Flateric,

we know only N-22.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

A 1963 report to Congress about the history of the NEPA and ANP programs mentions that Fairchild was given letter contracts to study nuclear-powered aircraft for the NEPA program beginning in 1946. Since the N-14, N-15, and N-17 virtually look like the B-52 and B-36 respectively, is it possible that Fairchild worked with Boeing and Convair to explore the idea of fitting the B-36 and forthcoming B-52 with a nuclear reactor?

 

[hesham]

A small report about it.