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Ken Smith Special Collection Photo

from SDASM Archives

  • Carole Fleming said:
    Biggest hangar I've ever been in.

Ken Smith Special Collection Photo

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  • Ernie Viskupic said:
    In the foreground is the XC-99 model. Even more interesting is the model behind and to the left. Basically a reworked B-36 Peacemaker with swept wings and 8 Pratt and Whitney J57 jet engines, Convair proposed this aircraft to the Air Force as the YB-60. Two aircraft were built, but the faster and better flying Boeing B-52 Stratofortress won the contract.
  • Carole Fleming said:
    I remember the model being in storage. I don't know what happened to it.

Ken Smith Special Collection Photo

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  • excellence III said:
    Great Photo...
  • Not the Fake Nate said:
    This is an XC-99. This photo does no justice to how big this beast is. The last survivor is being restored at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, OH. www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/photos/media_search.asp?q=xc-99...
  • Ernie Viskupic said:
    Yes, Nate. You are correct that it is the XC-99. But this was the prototype with no others being built. It was allowed to sit in the elements for years outside Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio. Read more about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XC-99
  • Not the Fake Nate said:
    Sorry, Wingman. I knew that. Should have said this is "THE" XC-99. I think its great that they are gonna put this side by side w/ the B-36 that it was based on. That is gonna be an amount of airplane that is measured in acreage.
  • Blue387 said:
    I thought this was a B-36 from the thumbnail.