NUCLEAR POWERED AIRCRAFT
From: DAWGFACE47@w...
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:10:21 -0600 (CST)
Subject: NUCLEAR POWERED AIRCRAFT
wayback in the 1950s and 1960s, the USAF actually had one or two
nclear powered bombers. i think they were either B-29s or B-36s.
flew routinely out of CARSWELL AFB, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, as part of a SAC
test program.
heavy, slow, and dangerous in the event of a crash-contamination of
crash site.
this info is now available to the general US public under the FREEDOM
OF INFORMATION ACT.
i have been told there was even a TV program aired about this
program on PBS, TLC, THC, or similiar.
and there i was , watching those big iron birds-both SAC bombers and
SAC nuke powered test aircraft fly overhead - and never had a clue as
to the experimental aircraft going over me home as kid!
the future was already there, way back then!