I was involved as test pilot for this B-36 project. 16ft span, 85 pounds, Six Super-Tigre 91s which were problematical. All wood construction from original plans. We had the flight controls on one transmitter, and the six engine throttles and the bomb-bay doors on a second transmitter. Pilot to flight engineer co-ordination was usually no problem.

The major problem we had was keeping all six engines running throughout the flights, as cooling was an issue with the pusher engines. Our test flights were conducted in the middle of summer in 100deg. weather, so we had to minimize the ground time with the engines running. We never had a flight where all six ran the entire flight.

It was flown four times then retired to the Western Aerospace Museum at the Oakland airport.

The gentleman that built this has just completed a Constellation model 049 with four OS91's, that was displayed at the last Rally of the Giants at Castle a couple of weeks ago. the first flight will be soon I hope.

Stan