(Air) What is this Bomber?

Yep it has to be one of the 1st hybrid aircraft. Packing 6 reciprocating prop engines and 4 jet engines meaning it had to have two separate fuel storage systems one for av gas and one for JP4 jet fuel. It is unique in that it never did fly one combat mission during its service time.

And the Navy made sure it never did!

Nope, the B-36 only carried gasoline. The turbo jets were specially modified to burn the same fuel as the recips. Made life a lot simpler.

"They call her peacemaker she's a beautiful thing. Five big assed motors hung on each wing. Pistons and turbines are what makes her run. You bet your ass bro she gets the job done. She totes a big bomb load for 10,000 miles. up front on the panel is an acre of dials..."

Nice pics.
Chino Planes of Fame is somehow connected to Pima. If you get out to SoCal make sure to check out Planes of Fame at Chino and also the March Field Museum. Both are great.

Regarding Strategic Air Command: Still waiting for it to be on DVD.

AFAIK, PoF has no connection to Pima. Pima is it's own entity.

You may be thinking of the PoF "annex" up at Valle, AZ which is about halfway between Flagstaff and the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Pima does have a connection with the Titan Missle Museum in Green Valley, AZ.

Nice shots of a BIG plane

You're right about the PoF relation. Not sure why I thought that. It is actually in Valle AZ

http://www.planesoffam​e.org …hp?page=valle-az-location

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #11087526
Pima does have a connection with the Titan Missle Museum in Green Valley, AZ.

That's another cool tour... Really quite interesting. Someday, I'm going to go back and take the long tour.

http://johnwright.smug​mug.com/Aviation/Air-Museums/Titan-Missile-Museum-1