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    Quote Originally Posted by N/A View Post
    Was it the 47, or was it the B-36 that first had pylon mounted jet engines?

    Well the B-36 did use pylon mounted jets but these were an afterthought added on the B-36D. Originally it only used conventional piston engines that were disastrously mounted backwards in the rear of the wings.

    The B-36 was a total dud with only 384 ever being produced and it suffered from constant problems mainly related to the horribly rearward mounted piston engines. Carb icing was a major cause of engine failure at altitude because of this. In front mounted engines the heat of the engine blowing back on the carb helps prevent this.



    Perhaps I should have said the first "successful" plane to use pylon mounted engines or the first jet to be designed specifically to use them. On the B-36 they were just a last ditch effort to try and salvage a failure of a plane that was obsolete as soon as it was built.





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    To a kid in 2nd grade at Kirkland AFB in New Mexico, the B-36 was a thing of beauty.
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    Quote Originally Posted by weevil View Post
    Well the B-36 did use pylon mounted jets but these were an afterthought added on the B-36D. Originally it only used conventional piston engines that were disastrously mounted backwards in the rear of the wings.

    The B-36 was a total dud with only 384 ever being produced and it suffered from constant problems mainly related to the horribly rearward mounted piston engines. Carb icing was a major cause of engine failure at altitude because of this. In front mounted engines the heat of the engine blowing back on the carb helps prevent this.



    Perhaps I should have said the first "successful" plane to use pylon mounted engines or the first jet to be designed specifically to use them. On the B-36 they were just a last ditch effort to try and salvage a failure of a plane that was obsolete as soon as it was built.






    That airplane looks so "Boeing"... like a supersized B-29 with ass-backwards engines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N/A View Post
    To a kid in 2nd grade at Kirkland AFB in New Mexico, the B-36 was a thing of beauty.

    Oh they weren't a bad looking plane......as Krupski said, "a supersized B-29".

    They just had the misfortune of being a piston engine plane at the dawn of the jet-age, and not a very good one at that.


    I'll bet those were a sight to see. They were one of the biggest planes ever built.
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    The Xb-35 was the competitor to the B-36
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    I had the pleasure of crawling all over a static display that was being torn apart to be moved from Ill to CA. I still have the switch safety cover for Engine #1.

    That thing has a tube and a trolley that allows you to travel from the front of the plane to the rear.


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    Quote Originally Posted by weevil View Post
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    "The current generation of young people is the smartest, most idealistic, and least prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States," Sanders writes.
    "This is a generation that is prepared to think big and move this country in a very different direction than we have been traveling for years."
    Excerpted from Bernie's new book, Teen Guide To Political Revolution.



    I took the liberty of editing his comment for accuracy;
    "The current generation of young people is the dumbest, least idealistic, and most prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States,"
    "This is a generation that isn't prepared to think big and move this country in a very different direction than we have been traveling for years."




    You know how when a cuck speaks, the exact opposites of the statement are factual.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5.56NATO View Post
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    "The current generation of young people is the smartest, most idealistic, and least prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States," Sanders writes.
    "This is a generation that is prepared to think big and move this country in a very different direction than we have been traveling for years."
    Excerpted from Bernie's new book, Teen Guide To Political Revolution.



    I took the liberty of editing his comment for accuracy;
    "The current generation of young people is the dumbest, least idealistic, and most prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States,"
    "This is a generation that isn't prepared to think big and move this country in a very different direction than we have been traveling for years."




    You know how when a cuck speaks, the exact opposites of the statement are factual.
    I have a slightly different way of translating this part of the passage: "...leave this country's political system alone, running like it has been for for years."
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    Quote Originally Posted by 5.56NATO View Post
    berned.jpg

    "The current generation of young people is the smartest, most idealistic, and least prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States," Sanders writes.
    "This is a generation that is prepared to think big and move this country in a very different direction than we have been traveling for years."
    Excerpted from Bernie's new book, Teen Guide To Political Revolution.



    I took the liberty of editing his comment for accuracy;
    "The current generation of young people is the dumbest, least idealistic, and most prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States,"
    "This is a generation that isn't prepared to think big and move this country in a very different direction than we have been traveling for years."




    You know how when a cuck speaks, the exact opposites of the statement are factual.
    True but this is a PHOTO THREAD. your quote from Bernie depresses me as to how stupid HE really is. I'll go back to posting actual photos and not depressing propaganda crap from that socialist dimwit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Helen Keller View Post
    So True.
    "Valar morghulis; valar dohaeris."

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    An actual photo, though the political cartoons make me smile, they are not photographs but ... well ... cartoons I need calming. This calms me down.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by tank_monkey View Post


    An actual photo, though the political cartoons make me smile, they are not photographs but ... well ... cartoons I need calming. This calms me down.....
    That's weird. It has the opposite effect on me.....
    "Valar morghulis; valar dohaeris."

    Commucrats are most efficient at converting sins and crimes to accidents or misunderstandings.-Oswald Bastable

    Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless.

    Freedom isn't free.

    "Attitude is the paintbrush that colors our world." TV Series, Haven.

    My Spirit Animal has rabies.

    I'd rather be an American than a Democrat.

    "If you can make a man afraid, you can control him" Netflix Series, The Irregulars

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