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Trundled out of Pratt & Whitney's experimental hangar at East Hartford, Conn. one day last week, the huge, red-tailed bomber looked like any other B-50. Actually, it was like no other plane in the world. The earth shook as Test Pilot Gil Haven revved up the plane's four Wasp Major engines, each one as powerful (3,500 h.p.) as a diesel locomotive. Then he sent the big silver plane thundering down Rentschler field, pulled it up into...
...will react upon one another and upon older weapons. Another unknown quantity is their cost, which is sure to be high. But many advantages are gained by dispensing with the human crewmen, who need space, visibility, heating and cooling, oxygen and pressurizing apparatus. And the crew of the modern bomber is an expensive item itself; it takes money and time to train its members...
...dogleg courses around the U.S. Halfway through the mission, they would simulate a bombing run on Oklahoma City. Four F-51 fighters of the Oklahoma Air National Guard would try to intercept them over the target, make a series of camera gunnery passes at the huge, ten-engined bomber...
...target when the first fighters flashed down. Major Crecelius' gunners lined up the sights of their radar-controlled 20-mm. cannon. The fighters bored in, slipped under the B-36's tail and banked around for another pass. Suddenly, something went wrong. Screaming down at the "hostile" bomber, an F-51 went out of control, slipped over on its back, and, with a thundering explosion, ripped into the B-36 amidships...
Startled farmers looked up to see the giant bomber split in half and come spinning down in flames from 20,000 feet. Four men tumbled out and parachuted to safety, but the other 13 crew members, including Major Crecelius, were killed. All anyone found of the fighter was a propeller and the pilot still strapped to his seat...