For all its success after World War 2, the Convair B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber was still a piston-engined machine, and it would not take long for it to be displaced by jet power. However, as the ...

When you're the U.S. Military, you go big or go home. But as it happens, even the Air Force has a limit when it comes to this ideology. It's hard to judge where they draw this line. But the massive, ...

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force wanted a turbojet-powered heavy strategic bomber to lug atomic bombs across oceans. Convair had built the piston-engine B-36 for the Air Force and decided that ...