Summary: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker ... away, and take off from a 5,000-foot-long runway. In November 1941, Consolidated Vultee (later Convair) won the contract with its Model 36 design ...

Yet there is more than meets the eye, as on one February evening in 1953, the city was on the brink of disaster, as a United States Air Force (USAF) Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber almost crashed ...

The “Peacemaker” was born from the U.S. Army Air Force’s requirement for a strategic bomber with intercontinental range. Although the B-36 was developed to fulfill WWII needs initially ...