The Jimmy Stewart movie Air Force has a lot of B-36 action, including a crash in the arctic. Really great movie. Watching those aircraft take off and fly, amazing. Incredible standing next to the main gear wheel at the Air Force Museum. When I lived in El Paso, I lived on the western side of the Franklin Mountains. B-36s were based at Biggs Air Force Base on the other side of the mountains, and one crashed in bad weather on my side of the mountain. I never saw the crash site, but at the War Eagles Air Museum, they have a recovered propeller from the crash site, as well as a photograph of the bomber taken by somebody on the ground not long before it crashed.
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