Originally Posted by ScoutmasterRick}
Aw, c'mon. You didn't think I was gonna make it that easy. Its the particular (very rare) variant of the B-36 that I'm looking for here. [/quote


That was one the DOE?? was using as a flying nuclear reactor test bed-they were actually thinking of trying to power aircraft with a nuclear reactor somehow?


Yep. Just imagine a having a whole fleet of nuclear reactors flying around overhead. shocked [/quote]

Especially with the questionable reliability of the B-36. Lots of crashes and IIRC at least one "broken arrow" from the B-36 fleet, although it's still one of my favorite plans of all time.