A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[Roy]

So Murph, if you're not doing scenery these days, what are you doing?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So Murph, if you're not doing scenery these days, what are you doing?

Getting in shape for the running of the bears........

[Roy]

Rufus, your current avatar looks like the commercial where the bear throws his fur in the washing machine. When it comes out, he's a polar bear. Coincidence?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, your current avatar looks like the commercial where the bear throws his fur in the washing machine. When it comes out, he's a polar bear. Coincidence?

Probably coincidence - that avatar has been deep in the files for years until I decided to bear up on Murph for a while with bears -- I think that there's at least 1 more in that file.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Slight change of pace...........

[Roy]

B-36 bomber and XC-99:

[rex desilets]

Thanks for that photo, Roy.
Never went into production because USAF determined it didn't need such a large transport. Yet it was used extensively during the Korean war.
As a kid, I could always tell when a B-36 flew over. The guttural drone of those six engines was unmistakable.

[Mitch]

So, the B36 would be Boeing ? Is the Convair Boeing, or Macdonell/Douglas? Did that thing have two levels for passengers? I believe this is the first I've ever seen of that plane.

[rogruth]

Isn't Convair the "brand" name and XC 99 the type?

[Roy]

So, the B36 would be Boeing ? Is the Convair Boeing, or Macdonell/Douglas? Did that thing have two levels for passengers? I believe this is the first I've ever seen of that plane.

Convair built both the B-36 and XC-99. The XC-99 used the wings and many parts from the B-36, and it did have two levels.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Seeing those planes reminds me of the D.E.W. system ("Distant Early Warning") the USA used to (?) have, back in the 60's (and 70's ?) wherein we sent such (?) planes toward the USSR (as it was known in those days) every fifteen minutes, with atom bombs as payloads (it was reputed) which turned back at a "Fail Safe" point unless ordered otherwise by the President's voice. That way, we were told, a defense was always at the ready, by being already in the air and near their targets, as offensive-defense for the USA, should the USSR get feisty.

There was a movie focused on that arrangement. I recall one of the characters riding one such bomb down to the Russian ground-zero target, yelling, "YYaaaaahhhhooooo!" and waving his cowboy hat on the way down.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There was a movie focused on that arrangement. I recall one of the characters riding one such bomb down to the Russian ground-zero target, yelling, "YYaaaaahhhhooooo!" and waving his cowboy hat on the way down.

Dr. Strangelove.............Slim Pickens as Maj. 'King' Kong

[MurphOnMillerAve]

There was a movie focused on that arrangement. I recall one of the characters riding one such bomb down to the Russian ground-zero target, yelling, "YYaaaaahhhhooooo!" and waving his cowboy hat on the way down.

Dr. Strangelove.............Slim Pickens as Maj. 'King' Kong

Yup. Thanks!
Murph
P.S. Apparently, in 2014, there was an article in "The New Yorker" magazine, entitled, Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True, by Schlosser.

[rex desilets]

Well, the comment was from the New Yorker..make of that what you will.
The bombers flying out to the fail-safe and returning was, as I recall, only used during the Cuban Missile crisis.