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    This Might be Useful to Warbird Restorers

    https://digitalcollections.museumoff...ems/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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    Wait a minute. Do you know someone restoring a B-36A?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle Boatright View Post
    Wait a minute. Do you know someone restoring a B-36A?
    No, but I expect they have to start SOMEwhere....

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FlyingRon View Post
    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....:-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by rwanttaja View Post
    Hardly worth the effort, then....:-)

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    Yeah, B-36 J(111) featherweight is the only way to go.

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