Convair B-36 Peacemaker

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

6

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" was a piston-engined, strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command from 1948 to 1959. With 384 units built, the B-36 remains the largest mass-produced, piston-engined aircraft and has the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Convair B-36 Peacemaker”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: U.S. Air Force photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.