This paper is pretty cool. This paper talks about a nuclear
powered aircraft that was being developed by the Air Force. The aircraft was
based on the B-36 Peacemaker. The B-36’s
engines would be replaced with GE-X39’s. These engines were turbojet engines
that were modified to use the heat from the nuclear reactor rather than jet fuel.
Only one X-6, the name of the prototype aircraft, was built and it never
successfully flew using nuclear power. The Russians had a similar program, but
their program was shut down shortly after the American program was shutdown.
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