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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend
Why the B-36 would be a "disaster"? AFAIK technically a very good design with nice handling.
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend
Yes Jukka, it would have been a technological marvel but it was designed and built with all those billions of dollars as a war plane and when the war came [Korea] it couldn't go because the enemy had jet fighters as it was already obsolete.
See the post, B-36 Six turnin' and four burnin'
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend
Even allowing that, disaster is a far too strong a word to describe the B-36.
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend
I understood that it had stability problems that nowadays can be handled by computers and fly-by-wire but weren't soluble then.
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Re: The Northrop B-35 was difficult to defend
Here is an interesting video clip from 1943 showing the take off of a B-35 during testing.
It shows much more ability to get airborne than the following B-36. When I watched that B-36 video clip in my other post 'Six turnin' and four burnin', it reminded me of the Spruce Goose film clip. That wing area obviously gave a lot of lift. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYno...eature=related
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