Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a strategic bomber that was built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36...

The development of the Convair B-36 strategic bomber began in 1941 with the XB-36, which was intended to meet the strategic needs of the US Army Air Forces...

development of Convair's earlier mixed-power B-36 Peacemaker. On 25 August 1950, Convair issued a formal proposal for a swept-winged version of the B-36 with all-jet...

their Convair Division for most of its corporate history. Convair is best known for its military aircraft; it produced aircraft such as the Convair B-36 Peacemaker...

Service ceiling: 12,200 m (40,000 ft) Related development Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair X-6 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Tupolev...

land-based transport aircraft ever built, and was developed from the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber, sharing the wings and some other structures with it...

Convair X-6 was a proposed experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft. The project was to use a Convair B-36...

on San Francisco. Convair B-36B 44-92075 was flying on a simulated nuclear strike combat mission against the Soviet Union. The B-36 took off on 13 February...

preserve and display the last Convair B-36 built. Of 386 B-36s built from 1945 to 1954, only four intact examples survive. B-36-J-III 52-2827 City of Fort...

the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying a Republic F-84 Thunderflash parasite fighter...