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Old 1st Jul 2008, 22:38
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Warmtoast
 
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In actual fact, the J47 jet engines on later B-36's could be (mostly) routinely restarted at 50,000 feet, to enable high speed bombing runs.
This was on the 'Featherweight' models, which had much equipment removed to attain these altitudes.
I thought the J47s were needed to get the B-36 off the ground in hot and high, Max AUW conditions.




Although I could be wrong as the picture below shows all ten engines running at height!

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