In 2005, the Air Force reallocated it to Tucson, Arizona’s Pima Air & Space Museum, which spent four years restoring it, a job that required, among other things, 5,000 nuts and bolts and 3,000 ...

When the B-36 entered service with the U.S. Air Force in 1948, the bomber served as the primary nuclear weapons delivery aircraft of Strategic Air Command (SAC)—a role that the B-36 would ...

That was during the space shuttle era. The test that Vander and his colleagues are preparing for now is for a monster so different from the shuttle that the test stand itself has undergone a six ...