![]() ![]() With a cruising speed of 225 mph and a service ceiling of 42,500 feet, the Peacemaker could carry a hydrogen bomb 30 feet long and weighing 43,000 pounds over 8,000 miles without refueling. In 1949, the aircraft was modified with the addition of four General Electric J47 Turbojet engines to improve its performance by increasing maximum altitude and speed. ![]() The Peacemaker, built at a cost of $3.5 million each, was a huge aircraft, 160 feet long with a wingspan of 230 feet, and was initially powered by six Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major 28-cylinder radial engines. Air Force, Strategic Air Command, it replaced the World War II era Boeing B-29 Superfortress and was the first bomber with intercontinental range specifically designed to carry nuclear bombs. However, the first operational aircraft, the B-36B, didn’t fly until July 1948. The B-36 Peacemaker, a heavy bomber built by Convair (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation) in Fort Worth, Texas, was designed during World War II (1941-1945). It is the second major crash of a B-36 at Fairchild AFB in less than three months. ![]() Fifteen airmen are killed and two are critically injured in the accident. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker crashes and burns while making a predawn takeoff on a routine training mission from Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane County. ![]()
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