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Six turning and four burning… what a sight it must have been to see the mighty Convair B36 Peacemaker fly. Less of a welcome sight would be watching a nuclear weapon being dropped by one in Canadian territorial waters only a few hundred miles North of Vancouver! This is the story of Bomber 075 and its sad ending!
The later marks of the Peacemaker had an additional 4 jet engines!
Convair XB-36 main landing gear.
The US Mk4 nuclear bomb.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the USAF and the US Gov.
