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The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use it to power the aircraft. Nicknamed "The Crusader", [1] it was created for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program (ANP for short), to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber. [2]
The Convair X-6 was a proposed experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft.The project was to use a Convair B-36 bomber as a testbed aircraft, and though one NB-36H was modified during the early stages of the project, the program was canceled before the actual X-6 and its nuclear reactor engines were completed.
A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy. ... ANP planned for Convair to modify two B-36s under the MX-1589 ...
Convair NB-36H [7] [1] Convair: Bomber United States: 1950s Convair NX-2 CAMAL [8] Convair: Bomber United States: 1950s Convair X-6 [9] [10] Convair: Bomber United States: 1950s De Havilland NP-3: De Havilland: Bomber United Kingdom: 1950s De Havilland NP-4: De Havilland: Bomber United Kingdom: 1950s Douglas Model 26 [11] Douglas Aircraft ...
The United States Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was a 2.5 MW th thermal-spectrum nuclear reactor experiment designed to attain a high power density and high output temperature for use as an engine in a nuclear-powered bomber aircraft. The advantage of a nuclear-powered aircraft over a conventionally-powered aircraft is that it could remain ...
What was soon called "Convair" (first unofficially, and then officially), was created in 1943 by the merger of the Consolidated Aircraft Company and the Vultee Aircraft Company. This merger produced a large airplane company , ranked fourth among United States corporations by value of wartime production contracts, higher than the giants Douglas ...
The first American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was USS Enterprise, commissioned in 1961. All of US Navy's current carriers, which are a mix of Nimitz- and Ford-class carriers, are nuclear ...
The ANP program used modified B-36s to study shielding requirements for an airborne reactor to determine whether a nuclear-powered aircraft was feasible. [46] Convair modified two B-36s under the MX-1589 project. The Nuclear Test Aircraft was a B-36H-20-CF (serial number 51-5712) that had been damaged in a tornado at Carswell AFB on 1 September ...