Keith Ferris Originals

8 August 1946 was the date of the first flight of the huge intercontinental bomber which was capable of carrying a 10,000 pound bomb load over a distance of 5,000 miles and returning to its base without refueling.  Convair’s B-36 served the Strategic Air Command as a deterrent to aggression from 1947 until it retired in 1959.

 

Published: Aviation Week & Space Technology Calendar 1976

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