On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:19:04 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
wrote:

On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 2:47:28 PM UTC-8, John B. wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 12:26:11 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
wrote:

On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 3:22:09 PM UTC-8, John B. wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:06:57 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
wrote:

On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 3:37:15 PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 3/4/2021 5:17 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
Hey John, I saw a picture of a heavy bomber circa just post WW II that had 6 reverse runny internal combustion engines and four jets on near the ends of the wings. From the serial number on the fuselage they had to have made at least 100 of these things but I've never heard of them before. Do you know what these things were? They appeared to have forward and aft gunnery positions So it had to have an extremely long range where they couldn't keep fighter cover.

Easy.
Convair B.36. Nothing else like it.

I'd like to know why they chose pusher props rather than he more standard approach. They were building some rather spectacular planes then. The B58 was a supersonic bomber with a 3000 mile range. This was unbelievable. They built a hundred of those things but they seemed to go out of service really fast so I guess it simply could not handle the stresses of supersonic flight. Being a delta wing, it was very stable in all conditions and I suppose it qualified as a medium bomber though with nuclear capability. **** and git as it were. That B36 had to have superior altitude and speed on the B50 that John worked with.
Re pusher props, it might have to do with airflow over the wings which
would be turbulent air behind the conventional forward facing
engine/prop so lift per square foot of wing area might be greater in
the reversed engine models.

With that sort of bomb load I suppose they needed every ounce of lift they could get.
Don't forget the fuel load to fly for 40 hours. Without in air
refueling.

Just noticed a youtube video "Dark Skies" had a video about the B50 and the first bomber to fly around the world. Rather funny that the B50 was refueled by an RB50.

Lucky Lady, but was it KB-50's that refueled it or KB-29's?
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Cheers,

John B.