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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #75 on: March 20, 2016, 10:22:00 PM »
Super interesting B-36 & C-99 postings. :)
Much appreciated.

Wonder if:
> PVC pipe would work for guppy top on B-36
> B-52 fuselage with cut off bottom or some ways up would work as raised top on B-36.  Use B-52 cockpit?
> Plastic tubing at craft stores that could be used as B-36 top section - dunno.
Worthy of research and consideration.


The length of PVC tubing that comes in the Contrail kit is supposed to be for stiffening the fuselage halves especially around the wing to fuselage joint. The kit styrene used by Contrail is very thin (looks about 1/2mm) so it's a good idea.  I'm not sure what industrial use the PVC would have been used for either because that is also very thin wall tubing.  I've not measured either the fuselage or tubing to see what diameter they are or how accurate it is scale wise.

Some other standard industrial pipe sizes work well as stiffeners if the correct size styrene is wrapped around it, I'm using some PVC as a stiffener for my Britannia to Yukon conversion where I need to add fuselage plugs either side of the wing. I will still need to wrap some thin styrene strip at the fuselage joints to bring it out to the right inside diameter though ---

Most PVC pipe has the same diameter as standard steel pipe although you can get round steel HSS with different O/D sizes but you need to measure them ---

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #76 on: March 21, 2016, 01:58:30 AM »
Been looking at B-36 fuselage mods to make taller cargo version.  Checked out fuselages of various kits.

What looks most doable is using two kits worth of (K)C-97 upper fuselage sections.  Ending up with double bulge effect like C-97.  Tapering down to tail is biggest challenge.  Using lower half of C-97 fuselage where it tapers up to tail turned upside down on top of B-36 helps with good portion of that.  Am sure someone with better styrene skills than me can make it work.  I might be successful considering PBH-417 turned out OK.

 

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #77 on: December 30, 2016, 04:59:26 AM »


prototype B-52 front...

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #78 on: April 29, 2017, 05:48:50 AM »
What about a tanker KB-36?
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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #79 on: April 29, 2017, 06:01:17 AM »
What about a tanker KB-36?
Absolutely "Yes"
Been on planning desk for a long time. 
Picture this:  Inflight diorama of KB-36 refueling three B-10 at once or single B-17/24.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #80 on: April 29, 2017, 11:35:53 AM »
Can build B-36 AWACS version.
EC-121 over/under radomes would be period correct.  E-2 E-3 could also be used.

USCG SAR 1960s version would have lots of range and time on station.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #81 on: April 29, 2017, 01:29:01 PM »
Like I suggested earlier, a British AEW version of the B-36 with the huge fore and aft antennas as intended for their studied AEW Stratocruiser.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #82 on: September 09, 2017, 04:07:56 AM »
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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #83 on: December 18, 2017, 02:09:43 AM »
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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #84 on: December 18, 2017, 02:14:28 AM »
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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #85 on: December 18, 2017, 02:34:19 AM »
Nice. Would it actually have been possible to refurbish a few 36's from the Boneyard to perform the Arc Light missions over South Vietnam?

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #86 on: December 18, 2017, 06:34:58 AM »
Glad to see B-36 Ideas & Inspiration thread pop up again.  Lost track of it during 1/1 car season of Spring-Summer.
BTS is ideal place to see autogiro/autogyro STOL mod demonstrated on aircraft of a builders choice.
Thatz a fine South Vietnam Arc Light B-36. :-*      So inspirational !
Remember reading magazine article back in the day where a boneyard B-50 was flown-tested for that kinda mission.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #87 on: December 18, 2017, 08:17:33 AM »
Nice. Would it actually have been possible to refurbish a few 36's from the Boneyard to perform the Arc Light missions over South Vietnam?
Perhaps update the jet engines for better performance, either the paired J57's of the early B-52's or, if you were going for latest and greatest, the paired TF33's of a B-52H?  I could see other avionics and systems updates, too.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #88 on: December 18, 2017, 12:09:14 PM »
Radome under B-36 can be painted silver or replaced with right shape piece of bubble wrap to be a laser dome.  Similar to cancelled 747 ABL but this one for less distant ground targets.  Power provided by fuselage perimeter turbines (4-6 T56?) fired up as needed per amount of power needed for particular targets.
Another variant of B-36 build to complement fine SEA B-36 thatz pictured.
Add one more to wanna build list !

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #89 on: December 31, 2017, 04:20:50 AM »
Via Alexander Fedosenko on Facebook.



And a bonus XC-99.



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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #90 on: April 03, 2018, 11:54:47 AM »
Well, it's more of a B-36 derivative idea, but there apparently was a study done of converting the X-3 for air launch from a XB-60 (apparently gave better clearance than being carried under a B-52 wing).  I could see a NACA/NASA-marked B-60 carrying a manned X-3 or a USAF one carrying an AGM derived from the X-3, but, say, with better engines.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #91 on: September 24, 2018, 03:14:36 PM »
Well there was a turboprop variant (or sorts - actually the VDT which doesn't use a Gas turbine per sae) - the B-36C:




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P.S. I have renamed this thread to "B-36 Ideas & Inspiration" so as to encompass all B-36 ideas, not just the racing ones...despite how cool that it.


Six 1/72 A400 engines could be adapted to front of B-36 wing.  OH,,, would like to do that !

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #92 on: November 09, 2018, 08:01:44 PM »
Options for a member-who-shall-not-be-named.  ;)


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RCAF-CP-36A-01
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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #93 on: November 10, 2018, 02:31:20 AM »
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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #94 on: November 10, 2018, 08:46:21 AM »
Of course  --  Is those B-36 transferred to Canada for maritime/ASW when SAC was replacing with B-52.  USN also received them.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #95 on: November 10, 2018, 12:40:48 PM »
The USN one would be their PB5Y's?

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #96 on: September 27, 2019, 06:48:48 AM »


A kit Bill would kill for! (if it was made). It's fan art.
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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #97 on: September 27, 2019, 08:04:58 AM »
Beautiful awe inspiring box top.  :-*

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #98 on: October 08, 2019, 08:07:23 AM »


A kit Bill would kill for! (if it was made). It's fan art.

I gather there was a conversion kit from Combat Models, but I'm told it was pretty weak.

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Re: B-36 Ideas & Inspiration
« Reply #99 on: October 08, 2019, 08:33:09 AM »
At Seattle IPMS show couple years back found 1/72 C-99 fuselage.  Mix it with B-36 main and tail wings. 
Was a SURPRISE find I did not know existed.  Is in stash.