Keeping the Peace With the B-36 – The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is the largest bomber in service with the United States Air Force today. However, it isn’t actually the largest bomber ever built!

The “Peacemaker” was born from the U.S. Army Air Force’s requirement for a strategic bomber with intercontinental range. Although the B-36 was developed to fulfill WWII needs initially ...

Britain's acclaimed Avro Vulcan bomber, for instance ... unpredictability of stealth bombers came the mighty Convair B-36 Peacemaker: a United States aircraft that didn't know the meaning of ...

Aircraft like the nearly-forgotten 10-engine Convair B-36 Peacemaker ... Against this threat the Army Air Corps wanted a bomber that could carry a significant payload from the eastern tip of ...

For an airliner, the 463-mile flight from Fort Worth to Kansas City is a matter of two hours, but for the B-36 bomber that waddled out onto the runway one day last week, the flight would take some ...

In the mid-1950s, Strategic Air Command came to Yokota and rotated bomber units through the base that flew B-36 Peacemakers, B-47 Stratojets, B-50 Superfortresses and B-52s, Jones said.