I think the one hanging (!) in the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH is
wrinkled because it's bent. I assume it was well stripped before
installation, but the skin has diagonal wrinkles in the front half.
Looks as though it made a very hard landing one too many times. I
don't remember
Naw.. the B-36 is wrinkled because of the incredible speed as it pushed
through the air.. ;))
The 4360 engine was the last gasp of piston power before the jet age
finally replaced them.. and a mechanical nightmare to work on.. I can't
imagine how the flight engineer ever got all the engines to
Thanks.
Somehow, I just knew you and the old bird had history, which prompted my
question.
Time flies, even if we don't, huh? Buffs have endured far beyond original
design life span. It sure says volumes for how well they were designed and
built.
I used to think the fuselage skin was wrinkled
Good joke, but the skin is wrinkled, especially on the ground, because of the
aircraft's semimonocoque design and construction - the skin carries part of the
load.
Thanks for the question; made me check the records.
Wilt
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Thanks.
Somehow, I just knew
55 hours in 007 in '74 and '75. Also many uncounted hours with it on nuclear
alert '72 through Jul '75, though, unless it was in another unit then. Many
hours also in 002 through 010 and others. The 17 aircraft in the unit rotated
through the alert force - on alert 3 or 4 months each time;
