Letter re: B-36
- Title
- Letter re: B-36
- Creator
- Latimer, James R.
- Institution
- TCU
- Link
- https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/24754
- Description
- "Mr. Amon Carter, Dear Sir, Inclosed an article on the XB36, the first one built. No doubt after salvaging the Motors and landing gears and certain instruments they will take a [torch] and slice it up as scrap with little value. It strikes me that a place on the Stack Show Reserve grounds along side the T & P #6/0 would be of immense value for the future, and if anyone could induce the Army and Convair along with Ft. Worth to donate it you are the only one that could induce them. But the hundred of thousands that would go through it in years to come, as a drawing card would justifiy it. It would be no problem at all to remove the wings and upper tail section and run in a couple oil field trucks and trailers and move it to location, then the wings and tail section could be again replaced. place the plane on a couple concrete pedestals the same height as when on landing gears. By so doing the fuselage will clear power lines as it would have an over all height of about 17 feet loaded and the weight is no more than our three trucks. They are now setting up the assembled sections in one shift on the location. They possibly would donate dummy engine [...] and propellers, if they decided to do so. It would be a historical affair. The wings will uncomple in the middle. Think it over, Respectfully, F. R. Latimer"
- Date
- 1952-02-06
- Decade
- 1950s
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Convair
- Consolidated Aircraft
- Source
- Box 063, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp 1951 1 of 3 Folder, Item 032
- Type
- Document
- Formats
- 8.5 x 11 Paper
- Rights
- Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph