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Convair B-36J "Peacemaker" strategic intercontinental bomber. Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, Nebraska, USA.

A Convair B-36J "Peacemaker" strategic intercontinental bomber, at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, in Ashland, Nebraska, USA. Although the B-36 was the largest bomber ever built and held the greatest combat unrefueled radius (10,000 miles), it never dropped a bomb in combat. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built, and has longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built, at 230 ft. Entering service in 1948, the B-36 was the primary nuclear weapons delivery vehicle of Strategic Air Command (SAC) until it was replaced by the jet-powered Boeing B-52 Stratofortress beginning in 1955 and phased out by 1959. This particular B-36J-111 (S/N 52-2217A) was manufactured by the Fort Worth Division of General Dynamics Corporation and delivered to the Strategic Air Command on December 22, 1953. Dimensions: Wingspan 230′, Length 162’1″, Height 46’9″.

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A Convair B-36J "Peacemaker" strategic intercontinental bomber, at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, in Ashland, Nebraska, USA. Although the B-36 was the largest bomber ever built and held the greatest combat unrefueled radius (10,000 miles), it never dropped a bomb in combat. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built, and has longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built, at 230 ft. Entering service in 1948, the B-36 was the primary nuclear weapons delivery vehicle of Strategic Air Command (SAC) until it was replaced by the jet-powered Boeing B-52 Stratofortress beginning in 1955 and phased out by 1959. This particular B-36J-111 (S/N 52-2217A) was manufactured by the Fort Worth Division of General Dynamics Corporation and delivered to the Strategic Air Command on December 22, 1953. Dimensions: Wingspan 230′, Length 162’1″, Height 46’9″.
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