tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post4751111322579174345..comments2024-03-27T20:35:24.546-04:00Comments on My Daily Kona: The B-36 PeacemakerMrGarabaldihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05768774166065615995noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post-34670838452636506302021-07-27T13:10:49.246-04:002021-07-27T13:10:49.246-04:00I was stationed at Chanute AFB Illinois from 1984 ...I was stationed at Chanute AFB Illinois from 1984 till the closure of the mission in 1993. We had one of the few surviving B-36s on display the entire time I was there, RB-36H 51-13730 painted as B-36 44-92065.<br /><br /> I remember talking to some old-timer 'townies' that remember when it flew into the base, they said that those big 'butter churner' pusher props were so loud when it came in to land that it cracked windows and shook pictures off walls and knickknacks off shelves.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06081841400627143934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post-88172431858458983192018-10-20T00:17:06.239-04:002018-10-20T00:17:06.239-04:00I really enjoyed your article. My father piloted ...I really enjoyed your article. My father piloted the B-29 off Saipan, the B-36 at Carswell AFB in Texas and the B-52 at Columbus AFB Mississippi during Cuban Missle Crisis. He loved flying, but always claimed the B-36 as his favorite. When I was 4 he took me in a B-36, layed on the cart with him while he ‘cabled’ us down to the tailgunner’s pod. A distinct memory I still have. B-52s we’re open for exploring on Armed Forces Day festivities and a few years ago I rode in a B-29. Just looking to have a sense of his experience. Max Hastings book ‘Retribution: The Battle for Japan’ provides a n exciting and fully comprehensive telling about the B-29, Lemay and the final times of the war. Thanks again for your blog. Learning more about these planes always makes me feel closer to my father. Raijinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05717917812037598060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post-64721873998220367352016-10-19T00:11:09.622-04:002016-10-19T00:11:09.622-04:00Amazing how, once upon a time, the US produced new...Amazing how, once upon a time, the US produced new outstanding military aircraft every few years. Now we spend a decade or more trying to get boondoggles like the F-35 to fly. <br />Doug Rinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12677807340279701734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post-27182060400796843522016-10-18T23:58:22.841-04:002016-10-18T23:58:22.841-04:00Amazing how, once upon a time, the US produced new...Amazing how, once upon a time, the US produced new outstanding military aircraft every few years. Now we spend a decade or more trying to get boondoggles like the F-35 to fly. <br />Doug Rinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12677807340279701734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post-35493854944239135502016-10-15T17:42:38.182-04:002016-10-15T17:42:38.182-04:00Excellent post! And Johnson SHOULD have been fired...Excellent post! And Johnson SHOULD have been fired for cancelling the carrier, but politics and the nascent USAF's US Army sponsors got that turned off...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post-62917254186329886612016-10-15T17:40:31.428-04:002016-10-15T17:40:31.428-04:00A most excellent article on a most excellent aircr...A most excellent article on a most excellent aircraft. Apparently one of the survivors, rescued from scrapping, was restored by Convair volunteers to the point where it was ready to FLY to a new museum home, but at the last minute, the FAA refused to let it take off so it was disassembled and trucked away.Murphy's Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17164780742334950772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444550425694584077.post-18876791323078970172016-10-15T00:24:03.395-04:002016-10-15T00:24:03.395-04:00Did you ever wonder if pilots of the B-36 worried ...Did you ever wonder if pilots of the B-36 worried at the B-52's lack of engines when they transitioned?Angus McThaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09295013525738248801noreply@blogger.com