CONSOLIDATED-VULTEE AIRCRAFT: The RB-36H Peacemaker was a strategic Bomber and Reconnaissance plane. It served as America's airborne nuclear deterrence in the early 1950's. It was capable of carrying the Mark 17 atomic bomb, which was 24 and 1/2 feet long and weighed an incredible 21 tons. See http://www.elite.net/castle-air/b36.htm
