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C Davies contributed another fine aircraft model to 3D Content Central. ( http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/Download-Model.aspx?catalogid=171&id=4239 )
Despite the period-correct hokey music, this is an excellent clip of the B-36 preparing for take-off and then in flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZSpqFPSK_c
Talk about big – “The B-36 was the largest mass-produced piston engined aircraft ever made and the largest combat aircraft ever built, although there have been larger military transports.” ( from this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36 )
Is it really called a peacemaker???
It was nicknamed the Peacemaker. Convair, the maker of the plane, proposed the name ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36#cite_note-1 ), but if was not official. Many aircraft are better known by their nicknames than their “official’ designations. Using such questionable names for war machines continues to this day. Ironically, the B-36 never dropped a single bomb or fired a shot at an enemy, although it did manage to drop (and lose in the ocean) one nuclear device as well as dropping another by accident in the New Mexican desert ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36#Notable_incidents_and_accidents ). So, it’s hole-making activities were quite limited.