The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use...
13 KB (1,261 words) - 16:19, 12 September 2024
was to use a Convair B-36 bomber as a testbed aircraft, and though one NB-36H was modified during the early stages of the project, the program was canceled...
10 KB (1,069 words) - 01:51, 8 September 2024
heavily damaged aircraft was rebuilt as the NB-36H Nuclear Reactor Testbed aircraft. On February 2, 1953 Convair B-36H Serial No 51-5729 crashed 16 miles southwest...
81 KB (10,347 words) - 19:52, 13 September 2024
Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
27 KB (2,140 words) - 17:13, 8 September 2024
Tu-95 Soviet bomber aircraft, analogous to the United States' earlier Convair NB-36H. It was intended to see whether a nuclear reactor could be used to power...
10 KB (850 words) - 22:45, 9 September 2024
England: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-331-0.[page needed] "Convair NB-36H "The Crusader"". National Museum of the US Air Force. 2009-06-26. Archived...
7 KB (391 words) - 14:11, 22 August 2024
powerplant testing, following the NB-36H programme. Cancelled and none built. Jacobsen, Meyers K. (1997). Convair B-36: A Comprehensive History of America's...
10 KB (1,462 words) - 10:56, 21 February 2024
aircraft. Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair X-6 Convair NB-36H Tupolev Tu-119 Notes Trakimavičius, Lukas. "The Future Role of...
3 KB (200 words) - 05:17, 13 June 2022
Pluto – US nuclear ramjet project, 1957–1964 Convair NB-36H – American experimental plane (1955–61) Convair X-6 – US proposed nuclear-powered plane (1950s)...
3 KB (228 words) - 08:21, 18 April 2024
aircraft to fly with variable wing sweep. X-6 Convair USAF, AEC 1957 Nuclear Propulsion Not built. The Convair NB-36H experiment, a B-36 modified to carry (but...
27 KB (1,403 words) - 05:31, 8 September 2024