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rwanttaja
02-10-2022, 01:48 PM
https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/items/show/50155

It's the flight operating instructions for a B-36A.

Things were different back then....here's how you use the emergency nose gear activation hook.
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Ron Wanttaja
Kyle Boatright
02-10-2022, 08:13 PM
Wait a minute. Do you know someone restoring a B-36A?
rwanttaja
02-10-2022, 08:36 PM
Wait a minute. Do you know someone restoring a B-36A?

No, but I expect they have to start SOMEwhere....

Ron Wanttaja
FlyingRon
02-16-2022, 03:59 PM
Well they'd have to start by finding one. Even when they were still flying the B-36A's were all converted to RB-36Es.
rwanttaja
02-16-2022, 04:12 PM
Well they'd have to start by finding one. Even when they were still flying the B-36A's were all converted to RB-36Es.

Hardly worth the effort, then....:-)

Ron Wanttaja
Kyle Boatright
02-16-2022, 05:45 PM
Hardly worth the effort, then....:-)

Ron Wanttaja

Yeah, B-36 J(111) featherweight is the only way to go.
FlyingRon
02-19-2022, 07:06 AM
If I don't have the four burnin' in addition to the six turnin' it isn't worth it.