Convair X-6
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convair-x-6-186-8083685
title:
Convair X-6
text:
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. The X-6 was part of a larger series of programs, costing US$7 billion in all, that ran from 1946 through 1961. Because such an aircraft's range w
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US proposed nuclear-powered plane (1950s)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_X-6
date created:
2004-08-10T19:26:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T01:51:23Z
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