cjh@csin.UUCP (Chip Hitchcock) (08/28/84)
Really did exist, although the cards posted around the one I saw last
month seemed so indicate that it was never used in combat. The one I saw
was in the USAF museum at the base outside Dayton OH. It was definitely
impressive; the museum looks like a couple of gigantic quonset huts and
the wings of the B-36 reach almost wall-to-wall in the [later] half. (One
card said that the plane had been rolled into the hall before the end
wall was put on.)
If you happen to be near Dayton the museum is certainly worth visiting,
although (as you might expect) you'll get a very biased view of military
development and technology. They leave out some things of interest to
fliers (e.g., the halls are laid out chronologically, so you can see successive
planes oscillating between fixed- and variable-pitch props, with no
discussion of why), but have a lot of good and interesting material
(including the only XB-70 (two were built, the other wiped out during
testing), an early attempt at a supersonic bomber. Come up to it from the
rear and you might think there's a miniature star destroyer on the
sidewalk).
CHip (Chip Hitchcock)
ARPA: CJH@CCA-UNIX usenet: ...{!decvax,!linus,!sri-unix}!cca!csin!cjh
War is peace Freedom is slavery Ketchup is a vegetable