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Remember the gauges we used to have on cars back in the day? For you young guys, they were "black circles with white numbers and a pointer, under a glass cover". And you didn't want the pointer to get near the red mark.

:jester:

The link leads to a view inside a late model B-36 "Peacemaker" from the 1950s. Pan left/right up/down with mouse or cursor arrow keys.

https://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/062/B-36J Engineer.html

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The B-36 was built by Convair (Consolidated Vultee) in Fort Worth TX, when I was a kid.
 
Quite a view!

Many years ago I did some CNC programming for part of a B-58 panel and remember two of the guys I was working with commenting that I was lucky not to have to mess with a B-36 panel. It was long after both planes went out of production so I guess it had made a long-lasting impression on them. Convair was General Dynamics by then.
 
They had so many engine problems early on, the aircraft was often described as:

"two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking, and two more unaccounted for."
 
Just imagine what the Flight Engineer's panel looks like!
 
Tom, I'm afraid you have your link wrong in your first post. That is the Millennium Falcon cockpit. You can see an X-wing fighter through the windshield.
 
When I was instructing in multi-engine planes we shut down an engine one day and it wouldn't restart. Entering the pattern my student was told to hold for traffic and he said to the tower..."Tower, we have one turning and one burning and we're landing now" !!! I almost **** a brick. :smile:
 
Healeysince59 said:
I think there's 4 surviving. None fly. There is one at the Pima Air Museum here in Tucson.

Marv J
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I knew I saw one of those somewhere! :encouragement: Just couldn't remember where. PJ
 
The B-36 "City of Fort Worth", B-36J-III-10-CF, s/n 52-2827A, now (after *quite* a history) on display at Pima.

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Here's part of the story:

https://www.cowtown.net/proweb/last_one.htm

I was born in Fort Worth TX back in 1948, and well remember the sounds and flights of those magnificent aircraft, which were built there. I visited this B-36 when I passed through Tucson last year when "Mac and Phyllis took their trip".

Tom
 
Don - did you see the photo of the dozens of 36s at Davis-Monthan, waiting for "the crusher"?

And don't miss that classic James Stewart movie, Strategic Air Command. The B-36 is pretty much the star of the film. And the showing walk-around, pre-flight, starting, and take-off is the actual event.

Tom
 
Saw those Tom.
Not a fan of that movie.
Something about it. It's been on a few times lately
 
Well, if you ignore the 1950s "love story" that runs from opening credits to film's end, the weak special effects on the crash in Greenland, and the impossible survival and rescue of the crew during the blizzard, etc.

But the takeoff scene is still great!
 
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