B-36 PEACEMAKER

This site is dedicated to the thousands of people who built,
maintained and flew the "Big Stick" of the Cold War.

WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF THE COLD WAR'S MOST EFFECTIVE NUCLEAR DETERRENT - CONVAIR'S B-36 BOMBER, THE PEACEMAKER.

SITE INDEX

History

"Why not Tulsa?" History of Convair in Texas

"B-36: Bomber at the Crossroads"

Notable Mishaps

THE FIRST INCIDENT 

THE FIRST CRASH

BROKEN ARROW 

• B-36B 44-92075 - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• "BROKEN ARROW"  B.C. Aviator, Oct/Nov 1993, by Dirk Septor.
• "GENTLE GIANT" An excerpt from an article by Jim Roddick.
• 1950 BOMBER CRASH IN BC  Peace BC by John Clearwater.
• B-36 CRASH MAKES HISTORY Highway 16 Magazine by Tammy Lipke
• THE DOWNING OF U.S. BOMBER 2075 CNNR.ORG by David Pugliese
• BROKEN ARROW, A LOST NUCLEAR WEAPON IN CANADA Mysteries of Canada by Bruce Ricketts
• CRASH SITE SURVEY  by Doug Davidge, Aug. 11, 1997.
• "NIGHTMARE AT MIDNIGHT"  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Feb. 17, 1997, by Frank Perkins.
• COPILOT INTERVIEW by Don Pyeatt.
• READERS COMMENTS about the mission and crash of this B-36.

MID AIR! 

TORNADO!

LACOCK, UK CRASH  Feb. 7, 1953.

• "CREW ESCAPES EXPLOSION" 
• CRASH SITE SURVEY 

RANDOM ISLAND, NEWFOUNDLAND 

THE ALBUQUERQUE INCIDENT

Specifications and Variants

Joe Baugher's Aircraft Encyclopedia.

XB-36

• Gallery

B-36

• Exploded View
• B-36B

YB-60

• Gallery

NB-36H

• Nuclear Propulsion Test Bed
• Reader's Memories, by James D. Endicott 

RB-36F

• Reconnaissance Version Manual Pages

XC-99

• Larry Westin's HomePage
• The Air Force Museum
• Requiem

The Peacemaker

Gallery of U.S. Nuclear Tests

Operation Teapot

Teapot HA

The Saga of the Last B-36

Contributor's Page

The Awesome Sound of the B-36

Links Page

B-36 Books

Revised and expanded
Third Edition Now Available

29 November 2006

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