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Post by harrysone on Mar 3, 2021 17:54:35 GMT 12
Outstanding footage of a "Big Stick' from a 1954 Jimmy Stewart movie..."6 turning & 4 burning!"
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 3, 2021 19:32:48 GMT 12
Horrifyingly ugly beasts, those B-36's.
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Post by harrysone on Mar 3, 2021 21:49:40 GMT 12
Horrifying in general...pretty much a dead end in aircraft development ...I think they were even bigger than b-52s no wonder that referred to them as “aluminium overcast” when they flew overhead
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Post by davidd on Mar 3, 2021 22:09:24 GMT 12
Absolutely beautiful filming though, particularly the latter part when flying through clouds and into the dusk, magic. The B-36 (which if I remember correctly first flew in 1946, when it used just one main-wheel on each side instead of the production versions shown here) was not produced in the numbers that the later B-52 was (latter somewhere about 700), but the US taxpayer had a huge investment in the B-36 fleet (a quick tote up comes to 385 B-36s, including prototypes). As can be seen in the film, when (presumably American) fighters make a pass, the B-36 would have been mincemeat for Soviet cannon-armed jets, even of the MiG-15 and -17 types.
David D
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 4, 2021 13:40:00 GMT 12
Startling climb rate...
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Post by harrysone on Mar 4, 2021 16:26:00 GMT 12
interesting snippet from Wikipedia about the movie that this is from ("Strategic Air Command")
Shot in the new VistaVision process, the film was the sixth highest-grossing film of 1955.[8] Critics were lukewarm about the performances of all except for Stewart, who was called "capable", "charming", and "competent".[9] Public reaction centered on the spectacular aerial footage, so much so that the B-36 and B-47 aircraft were arguably the real stars of the film. Its release led to a 25 percent increase in Air Force enlistments.[10]
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 4, 2021 17:43:30 GMT 12
Kinda exactly like Top Gun.
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