i should mention, for the Cold War aviation perverts, that there's a beautiful, full colour, high res copy of "Strategic Air Command" available on the Internet Archive, in case u want to see Jimmy Stewart pull himself upside down on a little wheeled cart thru the 85' pressurized tunnel inside a B-36 - ThreadSky

cageyratfish.bsky.social • 1 day ago

i should mention, for the Cold War aviation perverts, that there's a beautiful, full colour, high res copy of "Strategic Air Command" available on the Internet Archive, in case u want to see Jimmy Stewart pull himself upside down on a little wheeled cart thru the 85' pressurized tunnel inside a B-36

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Ghawd i love being old enough to remember the Cold War & its end! hahahaaaa!! FUCK

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cageyratfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

Boeing wanted to make a passenger airliner version of that fucking beast & ... hahaha yeah. sometimes the arc of the universe does bend in the direction of aviation safety.

"2 turning, 2 burning, 2 smoking, 2 choking, and 2 unaccounted for"

cageyratfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

part of me wishes there was still one flying around so i could catch it in Skycards. come on, it would be cool, and also serve as a warning about hubris or something

cageyratfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sorry that was CONVAIR, not BOEING. there was plenty of Boeing rep in the movie tho, with the B-47 taking over after Jimmy was a little rough on his B-36)

the vents on the leading edges of the wings always creeped me out. A seriously *nasty* and spooky looking airplane. Literal nightmare fuel

cageyratfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

and loud as fuck. 6 28-cylinder Wasp Major piston engines & 4 jet engines. Assuming all ten were actually working at once, lol

ciara2001.bsky.social•1 day ago

And then there was the NB-36, nightmare fuel of an entirely different kind, 6 turning, 4 burning and 1 melting it's way to the earth's core

cageyratfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

oh fuck yes. WORST THING TO EVER FLY

the-episiarch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hold on...

jopabinia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sacabambaspis spotted

cageyratfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

i'm dead now. EXTINCT

beamjockey.bsky.social•19 hours ago

That movie WORSHIPS the bombers Jimmy's character flies. The camera lingers over every part of the shiny plane. B-36s and B-47s are the stars.

Pure eye candy for airplane lovers... if they can put aside the implicit prospect of thermonuclear megadeath. And when I say "they," I mean we.

toughergirl.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I came into the world during the Khrushchev era and saw the whole thing unfold and implode. Good Soviet times.

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