Lockheed jet tanker
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Grey Havoc said:
I would have thought that by 1979 everyone would have been done with nuclear powered aircraft as a concept that just was too complex and costly to be practical.
I believe that the 1973 oil crisis renewed interest in nuclear-powered aircraft.
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Too late ! Still during the '60s, nuclear powered aircraft could have been brought into service (if technologically
and economically feasible), but during the '70s, with its rising ecology movement, only States lke the SU, which
still kept their people firmly in hand, could have fielded such aircraft. In the western world even the costs for the
then necessary police operations, to remove protestors from the runways, would have been prohibitive !
and economically feasible), but during the '70s, with its rising ecology movement, only States lke the SU, which
still kept their people firmly in hand, could have fielded such aircraft. In the western world even the costs for the
then necessary police operations, to remove protestors from the runways, would have been prohibitive !
More information on a KB-36A....
NARA II, College Park, MD
RG 342
Entry P-26
Box 3685
Folder: 452.1
Consolidated B-36
Confid 1945-46-47-48
Declassified via NND 917647
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18 June 1948
AFMRD-3
SUBJECT: B-36A Tanker Aircraft - Performance and Configuration.
TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio
Attention: MCREOA--9
1. This Headquarters is desirous of obtaining information for planning purposes which will indicate the operational capability of the B-36A, modified as a tanker.
2. It is requested that typical flight plans be furnished that will show the B-36A tanker refueling the B-29, the B-50A, B, C, D, and the B-52. The flight plan should show the B-52 going to a target 4244 nautical miles from the Base and returning to the Base with one refueling. The B-29 and B-50 series should be shown going maximum distance with one refueling before returning to Base.
3. In all probability it will be necessary to strip the B-36A to enable accomplishment of B-52 refueling, and it is requested that a proposal for the stripping be forwarded to this office.
BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF:
L. C. CRAIGIE
Major General, US Air Force
Director of Research & Development
Office, Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel
NARA II, College Park, MD
RG 342
Entry P-26
Box 3685
Folder: 452.1
Consolidated B-36
Confid 1945-46-47-48
Declassified via NND 917647
-------
18 June 1948
AFMRD-3
SUBJECT: B-36A Tanker Aircraft - Performance and Configuration.
TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio
Attention: MCREOA--9
1. This Headquarters is desirous of obtaining information for planning purposes which will indicate the operational capability of the B-36A, modified as a tanker.
2. It is requested that typical flight plans be furnished that will show the B-36A tanker refueling the B-29, the B-50A, B, C, D, and the B-52. The flight plan should show the B-52 going to a target 4244 nautical miles from the Base and returning to the Base with one refueling. The B-29 and B-50 series should be shown going maximum distance with one refueling before returning to Base.
3. In all probability it will be necessary to strip the B-36A to enable accomplishment of B-52 refueling, and it is requested that a proposal for the stripping be forwarded to this office.
BY COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF:
L. C. CRAIGIE
Major General, US Air Force
Director of Research & Development
Office, Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel
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