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Description
| Manufacturer: | Convair | |
| Base model: | B-46 | |
| Designation: | XB-46 | |
| Nickname: | Tornado | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1924-Present | |
| Basic role: | Bomber | |
| Status: | Experimental | |
Specifications
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| Dixon Keller Las Vegas, NV | Pete.. email me..
dixonwkeller@cox.net 11/04/2007 @ 07:35 [ref: 18393] |
| Dixon Keller Las Vegas, NV | The XB-46 was most definately a Convair/consolodated project. My father, William C Keller was the chief design engineer for the XB-46. Unfortunately, they only built 1, as the war had ended at the completion of the project.
07/17/2007 @ 06:41 [ref: 17148] |
| Dixon Keller Las Vegas, NV | The XB-46 was most definately a Convair/consolodated project. My father, William C Keller was the chief design engineer for the XB-46. Unfortunately, they only built 1, as the war had ended at the completion of the project.
07/17/2007 @ 06:40 [ref: 17147] |
| Peter Butt Thumrait, Oman, OTH | You\\\'re reference to \\\" Tornado\\\" as the nickname for the xb-46 is complete news to me. Are you sure you are not confused with the North American B-45 Tornado? 07/22/2004 @ 17:02 [ref: 7883] |
| Pete Breitenbach Austin, TX | My Dad, Max "Jim" Breitenbach, a structures engineer, worked on the design team for the XB-46, the first attempt at building a jet bomber. He worked on the structural design of the wing. He says that they couldn't calculate the stresses on swept wings yet, so they designed a straight wing.
He also says that the workers who drilled the rivet holes had trouble, and ended up with elliptical holes. So many of the flush rivets used on this aircraft had to be hand filed to fit. 06/19/2004 @ 18:20 [ref: 7645] |
| Esteban Gorgollon Viņa Del Mar, OTH | This plane lost to B-47 in a jet bomber contest.CONVAIR start his design in the early postwar. The first flight was on April 3 of 1947. In a flight from Wright Field to Dayton, Ohio, the XB-46 reach 858Km/h.
Max.speed:900Km/h(stimated) Ceiling:13.100m Range:4.000Km with 3.629kg of bombs Max.load:41.277kg Span:34,44m Lenght:32,31m Height:8,53m Armament:max. bomb load of 9.072kg 02/06/2001 @ 00:05 [ref: 1558] |
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