A common misconception, but the B-36 was meant to bomb Europe when first ordered. It was designed to bomb Europe from the US in the event that the UK fall before the US entered the war. Same with the Atomic bomb. The first targets suggested to FDR when they were developing the bomb were in Germany (I believe Dresden and Nuremberg were two of the main targets). It was only when they realized that the bomb more than likely would be too late to have an effect on the war in Europe, were targets switched to Japan

You might notice that this video has very little basis in reality and no educational value. This is because I did minimal research and made things up.

The official motto was "Six turning, four burning" The crew's motto was "Two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking, and two more unaccounted for"

“These engines often had troubles keeping their combustion internal” God I love this channel already

Why does the b-36 arsenal bird look unironically cool I love it

Now this is quality content

Basically, the B-36 fell victim to the “stopgap solutioning the problem until we have a reason to not do so”

Some alternative fun facts about the b-36: 1. There was also a plan to tip-tow RF-84s off the wingtips of the b-36 (project Tom-Tom). This is great in theory until you realize the rf-84 doesn't exactly have restrooms and the b-36 can fly for well over a day 2. The b-36 was used on at least one occasion to ferry a partially assembled b-58 hustler dangling from under its bomb bay 3. The b-36 used a tunnel with a mechanic's trolly and rope system to go from the front pressurized section to the rear pressurized section. 4. The original XB-36 had a pair of 9'2" tall wheels for its main landing gear. Unfortunately the loading was so great from the main gears that it was restricted to 3 airports due to concrete thickness, and the gear was switched out. This is also the reason for the hump on the back inside of the wing, to accomodate the wider landing gear. 5. On the subject of landing gear, the xb-36 also tested tank tread style gear for less prepared fields. Because someone fully intended for a plane with a longer wingspan than a 747 to take off of a giant grass field 6. The xb-36 fielded a windscreen a lot more like the b-29, however the production b-36 switched that out for the greenhouse for...visibility probably? idk 7. A good chunk of the plane is magnesium, which means it not only catches fire, but catches fire in such a way that spraying water on the fire makes it worse. 8. It originally had eight gun positions, six of which were retractable pairs of remote turrets, each turret with a pair of 20mm cannons. The other two were nose and tail guns. These were removed during featherweight 1 as it was thought the b-36 could outmaneuver fighter aircraft at its cruise altitude 9. They made a transport version of this beast, the XC-99. Same wings, same engines, super weird looking tall fuselage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XC-99 10. There were 121 of these, potentially the most overt aircraft to exist, configured with a camera for reconnaissance. 11. The peacemaker name isn't official, because there were objections because "only god is the peacemaker" 12. These aircraft never dropped a bomb on an enemy target, conventional included.

Holy crap, I didn’t expect an Arsenal Bird Peacemaker piloted by Crimson 1! Your videos are amazing, I’m so happy I discovered you randomly.

This channel is criminally underrated

lets be honest here, we all would love a Goblin in our garage

11:21 Convair Proposal 4-2069 “AB-36 Notional AAC Platform” aka “Arsenal Bird - 36”

As an Ace Combat fan. I love this

I dont think you understand, the spaceplane b36 failed because you didn't attach the fuel b47s. Additionally, as per the original designs, the super-b36 would not carry its 271 goblin parasite aircraft on its wings, instead it would use the giant nuclear autocannon in its center to fire them at any possible targets, which would obviously allow it to outrange missile aircraft such as the f35 or su-something-something which were being designed around the same time.

Some more facts about this wonderful wacky aeroplane: the desired report on the engines was "Six turning, four burning" but the unreliability of the engines gave rise to "Two turning, two burning, two joking, two smoking, and two unaccounted for." At high altitude, its huge wings gave it fighter-like maneuverability. There was _NO_ oil change interval established because any oil put in was consumed before it wore out. You could work on some of the engines mid-flight. It could sustain flight at high altitude on the jets alone, and this and those huge wings would let it fly very slowly, slower than the stall speed of its escorts, which developed a game of trying to get your own escorts to fall down by tricking them into flying too slow.

11:15 the granny of the Arsenal Bird. the B-36 is the most plausible airborne aircraft carrier. it is beautiful .

The goblins deploying from a giant blended wing is terrifying

6:09 couldn’t stop laughing

11:16 Gotta love that Ace Combat 7 reference, with the Arsenal bird and everything, amazing

I did not expect for a new video from you today, but here we are! On another note, you did a really good job on this one.

5:08 - 5:19 That is the most KSP sequence I have seen in a long time.

the NB tail flag was beautiful

“But that’s a story for later” loved that delivery

5:17 that bitch slap is personal.

11:29 Bassicaly summs up the ace combat 7 flying aircraft boss fight

This is something else. It feels like a fever dream

I have an exam in 2 hours and I've had to stop studying for the incomparable glory of the 230,000 milliSievert bread. My grades may be in tatters, but at least thanks to this so will canada.

if you go to the strategic air command museum in omaha ne you can see one of these upclose really beautiful beast and they even have a goblin too.

11:33 erusea moment

It’s always a good day when the DroopestofSnoots uploads 😄 🅱️-36

TBH that ending interception scene was awesome, also the whole video was awesome

That combination of the NB-36 and the YB-49/YB-35 with Goblins is something I have legit come up with before. It was supposed to be a flying HQ for a paramilitary group that uses in-flight dreamhacking to interact with vtubers

5:42 sky potato go speeen

11:00 crazy man

So let me get this straight, I’ve never seen your channel before and I instantly regret having missed out on these amazing pieces of Content 11:23 Ace Combat 1970 Also, I absolutely love how much he sounds like an ace combat villain

2:09 -accidental- improvised afterburners

Just like you said, even though this video almost lacks of any educational informations in it, i still enjoyed every second of it and i kept finding myself coming back every once in a while to watch this masterpiece. Great work overall.

“Yeah just put the engines on the back and it will fly faster”

Im so glad i found this channel

This video was hilarious and once again I am amazed by your builds. Very cool

6:09 best thing I've seen today

Loved it! Perfectly the type of humor for me and also just the way I play KSP. Love the pun! :D

Bro how do you not have 200k subs yet??? This is god tier quality content! Keep up the great work!

Please do not stop making videos like this! This stuff is pure comedy gold! I have not laughed this much in a long time :_(

i like how with some plane names itll be called something like “superfriendlycoolguy” and be capable of wiping the entirety of europe off the map

I'm 2 minutes into the only video i've ever seen from this channel and I'm already subscribing for the humor alone. Why can't history teachers be this hilarious.

3:39 *Yes MOre JeT enGineS HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO*

You got yourself a new fan, stellar work!

11:48 ace combat moment

There are too many furry jokes in this video for droopofsnoots not to be a furry XD

i LOVE how informative and funny this is, + its in KSP which makes it 10x better

Can't believe I've just found your channel. This is the history I'm into, with just three right amount of comedy!!!

that goblin carrier was just beautiful , FANTASTIC VIDEO!!

Sir, you have made me laugh several times and still managed to teach me something. You have earned another subscriber!

just discovered this gold mine of a channel, 10/10 lol

It’s rare to see channels recognizing obscure planes like the b-36, keep up the good work man👍

bro your video is the first video i watch with being 18 years old. i just discovered this video watched it, had birthday and now i will continue watching it. great video by now. :)

This video was so fun to watch, excited for more content keep it up

Just stumbled upon your channel, the first two minutes had me laughing like I haven't in a long time. Thanks!

Extremely glad that the algorithm brought me here, this is like a perfect combination of all my interests in one video, kinda uncanny, keep it up!

Holy shit this is the first video I've seen from you, and like the B-36 its on fire. Subbed within the first five minutes

Congratulations on the big boost of subscribers! Love your content :)

You play an insane person well. (And I really enjoyed this video!)

12:15 b57: am i a joke to you?

Yo wait as soon as soon as this video started I was like...this guy sounds professional! I hope to see more videos from you!

I could easily see this channel getting popular off of videos like this cause this type of content is fun and bingeable

Love the halo reference with glassing...also nice reference to nova bombs

The way it smashed to the ground at 0:39 keeps me awake all night 🤣

Congrats on hitting the Algo with this one. Super entertaining

You gotta do more of this, this was awsome and hilarious 😂

Something safe something practical- cuts to uranium fever. I love this channel

holy shit there were so many jokes packed into this video it took me like half an hour to watch because i had to pause the video to comprehend what was going on very informative, excellent work 10/10

Bro you deserve the golden playbutton, your content is gold 😂

This channel deserves more. Love this

Hey that's pretty good! I made a B36 in RSS RO RP1 but I used procedural wings. No way id have the patience to do all that paneling. I'm working on the Handley Page Victor now and the wings are have been a major pain

4:09 god tier reference and a swedish win

severely underrated channel, keep up the good work

How have you managed to make this the funniest shit ever while also interesting. Very well done.

Best Ksp video I’ve ever seen. You’re genius!

Instantly subscribed after one video. Good content.

"I'm in love with the Coco" 0:23

The ace combat music towards the end sent me, good vid and great taste

holy hell this was good. keep doing it and you'll have subs in no time.

I absolutely love this types of videos

iirc, the testing of the Nuclear powered variant was to test the effects of radiation poisoning on the crew and how effective the radiation shielding was. Obviously they would've known the aircraft had the lift required to get in the air and fly. Also, it's nuts to think the it had Caterpillar Treads in some variants to land in smooth fields off runways... I didn't learn much about B-36 until relatively recently so I didnt know the nuclear plane was based off it.

That yugioh edit was so unexpected. Top tier tomfoolery

7:31 OK, I filled this part Tanker Bomber " If you don't like nuclear power, then I slap 2 tanker so you can go safer "

CONGRATS ON GETTING 10K!!!!

How did i not know this channel before. These videos are hilarious!

This is quality stuff, subbed immediately.

From 8:49 "you spin me right round' baby right round', this is a new record baby." 💀

32 seconds into the vid and you have already earned my subscription. :)

I tried to make a video on the Goblin once. I think I did okay, but this is far better at showing the absolutely batshit insane things the USA was up to around then.

PLEASE make more content. Your few videos like this are legendary.

Oh my god bro how tf do you only have 20k subscribers!? Bruh this is better than most stuff I’ve seen.

11:11 JUST BEAUTIFUL. MASTERPIECE.

This is the best KSP content I've seen in months.

Loved this! Well done!

The YB-60 was pretty much a straight forward jet conversion of the B-36, literally taking the same wing and tail surfaces, sweeping them back, adding new control sufaces and replacing the piston engines in the wings with jet engines on pylons under the wings. While the YB-60 had a longer range and a heavier bomb load than the B-52, the B-52 was over 100mph faster, had a much higher service ceiling and was more stable in flight thanks to it being designed from the ground up as a jet aircraft. The thicc wing, while necessary to house the massive piston engines in the B-36, proved to be a liability in the YB-60.