This is a NB-36H Peacemaker of the old Strategic Air Command. The Peacemaker was about 30% larger than the B-52 Boeing Stratofortress and it had the capability to fly round trip from the United States to the Soviet Union unrefueled. It had 6 counterrotating propellers piston engines and 4 turbojets engines or as old Air Force hands would say, " six turning and four burning ". Initially designed to be able to fly from the United States to Nazi Germany in World War 2 by Consolidated Aircraft company, which later became Convair and then part of General Dynamics, this particular model flew in August 6, 1956 with an operating experimental nuclear reactor and it remains the only aircraft know to do so.
