Originally Posted by
mephisto
Burtonwood in news today as proposed site for new 'super prison' which prompts me to make this post.
As a ten or eleven year old around 1957 I lived in Rusholme, just a couple of miles south of Manchester city centre. I remember one evening, not too late, when people all around were brought out of their houses by the tremendous earth-shaking rumbling of a huge aircraft which was circling continuously for what seemed an age. There was very low cloud at the time which probably amplified the noise but on a couple of occasions the huge silhouette of a Convair B-36 could be made out and , Boy, was it low! The intrusion by this behemoth with its six pusher piston engines was treated as a major incident by the press and people were talking about it for weeks.
Can anyone throw light on this? Was it simply hopelessly lost, burning fuel or some Yank's idea of a joke by deliberately frightening the life out of the good citizens of Manchester?
They also had four jet engines.