Six turnin, four burnin....

[EricJ]

9 hours ago, Andy95W said:

Picture below is Ted Williams, one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived.  Played for the Red Sox.  Marine Corps pilot, fought in WWII, recalled to active duty for the Korean War.

Ted Williams always makes me think of this: 
 

 

[Mcstealth]

On 5/13/2020 at 9:28 AM, Andy95W said:

Oh, how soon people forget.

Picture below is Ted Williams, one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived.  Played for the Red Sox.  Marine Corps pilot, fought in WWII, recalled to active duty for the Korean War.

 

Shut up old person? with baseball and Marine Corp triva knowledge.

Edited May 14, 2020 by Mcstealth

[flyer338]

The Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson is not to be missed. In addition to a B-36, they have a B-58, and the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Their most magnificent display is the remaining B-70 Valkyrie.

The Castle AFB museum at Atwater, CA has a B-36, and on Memorial Day weekend they have open cockpit day. It is worth a trip if one is nearby.

[tony]

On 5/12/2020 at 4:54 PM, Greg Ellis said:

The video used in this movie of the B36 looks like it was filmed at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, Texas.  It is now the Navy JRB.  When they taxi to the runway and start the run up that they show, the lake in the background is Lake Worth which is just off the north end of the runway.  They used to fly the B36 out of there as well as others.  General Dynamics which is now Lockheed Martin is on the West side and the JRB is on the east.  There was a B36 Peacemaker parked out at the edge of the base for many years that you could pull up near it in your car and look at it.

I believe you are correct.  

[1001001]

Check out the downwash and wingtip vortices at 4:16 in the B36 video.