B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM

A 501(c)(3) Non-profit Corporation

Dedicated to the preservation of the
rich aviation history of North Texas.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
See President's column below.

MONTHLY MEETING DETAILS
See meeting announcement for update.

 

Museum logo design by Joe N. Carr ©2003.

 

MONTHLY PUBLIC MEETINGS DRAW LARGE CROWDS.
See "News and Special Announcements"

 

2009 BOARD of DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED
Click here for details.

 

WELCOME TO
B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM INC.

Updated 24 November 2009

 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND NEWS UPDATE

 

We are proud to present:

OUR SPEAKER FOR TUESDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2009:
Mr. Jim Gatewood
will present
Slats Rogers and the Love Field Lunatics

 


Photo and text via Cleburne Public Library

 

At the end of World War I, Love Field became a Mecca for gypsy barnstorming pilots and a flying circus was formed called Slats Rodgers and the Love Field Lunatics. The circus was used as a cover for the delivery of his bootleg whiskey.

When Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in 1933, he repealed the Volstead Act. The sixteen year window of time for bootleggers slammed shut.

Mexico beckoned to Slats and he became a gun runner involved in a small revolution. Later he left Mexico, a rich man.

With the gold he brought out of Mexico, he purchased an airfield in Mission, Texas and went into the crop dusting business.

A Texas historical marker stands today near a cantina at the McAllen International Airport Terminal honoring Floyd H. (Slats) Rodgers.


For more info see http://www.dcarb.com/ 

Mark your calendar, tell your friends and bring the kids.

Clyde Picht, President
B-36 Peacemaker Museum, Inc.

Free admission - Free parking

Meeting schedule:

Please join us for our next meeting at 7:00 P. M. on 15 December 2009.

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NOTE: Our meetings are held on the third TUESDAY of each month.

The location is:

University of North Texas Health Science Center
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd
ROOM 108, MAIN BUILDING
Fort Worth, Texas

Call (817) 244-9090 for more information.

 

Travel north on Montgomery Street to Camp Bowie Blvd. Turn right, go one-block and turn left on Clifton Street. Park in the free parking lot and enter the administration building at the atrium. Take an elevator to the ground floor and proceed to room 108.
From I-30W
From I-30, travel north on Montgomery Street to Camp Bowie Blvd.  Turn right,
go one-block and turn left on Clifton Street.  Park in the free parking lot and
enter the administration building where shown above. Take the elevator
down to the ground floor and proceed forward to room 108.

Overflow parking is available across the street adjacent to the "Camp
Bowie Blvd" legend on the map above.  From there, walk to the SW
corner of the administration building on Montgomery Street and
enter the building on the ground floor.  Room 108 is directly inside
the entrance.

FUTURE MEETINGS

 

 

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On Saturday, July 4, 1925, Fort Worth Mayor H.C. Meacham announced during the annual Defense Day celebration the final signing by the City Council, on Friday, July 3, of a lease on Decatur Road of 100 acres of land to be used as the city's new municipal airport.  This airport, located one-half mile from the city's dirigible mooring mast, and called "Muny" by local citizens, would replace Fort Worth's first municipal airport that was located at a former WWI aviation cadet training school at Barron Field near Everman.

In the years that followed, the new airport would be renamed Meacham Field and Decatur Road would be renamed North Main Street.  This small airport would eventually become a major factor in the growth of Fort Worth and North Texas.  Its location became a primary factor in the Army's decision to locate a WWII bomber factory and Air Force base in Fort Worth that would forever change North Texas - and the world.

CLICK HERE to learn the real history of Fort Worth's municipal airport.

 

 

Great airplanes don't simply appear in history, they evolve through a myriad of technological, political, and economic processes. In this book you will experience one of the most unlikely developments in aviation history - the Convair B-36 PEACEMAKER nuclear bomber. From its beginnings during the world's greatest conflict through construction in a former wild-west cattle town and deployment into the Cold War, the story of the Convair B-36 and how it intimidated the Soviet Union can now be told. Within this book the reader will experience life during the Cold War as our parents and grandparents lived it. You will meet military leaders, politicians, cowboys, tycoons - and a cowboy tycoon - who worked together to save the free world from domination by a communist dictator. You will also see up-close the amazing technological capabilities of aviation at the beginning of the nuclear age and how they were manifested in the B-36 PEACEMAKER.
A totally new study of the B-36 era from Specialty Press written
by renowned aviation author Dennis R. Jenkins and our very
own historian Don Pyeatt. Available for pre-release
orders from Amazon.com. Click here for details and to order.

 

7th Bomb Wing <nobr>B-36</nobr> Association Inc.
B-36 Peacemaker Museum is
fully endorsed by the 7th Bomb
Wing B-36 Association, Inc.

 


Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts in despair are aching,
That’s where the West begins;
Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there’s more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying —
That’s where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman (1916)

 

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B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM INC.
P.O. Box 16657
Fort Worth, TX 76162
(817) 244-9090

 

 

 

NEWS AND SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.......

 

PUBLIC MEETING
REPORT AND
SCHEDULE

Our next public meeting will be on
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
7 P.M.
UNT Health Science Center
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd
Room 108, Main Building,
Fort Worth, Texas

For information call
(817) 244-9090

Please refer to the map on this page for detailed driving instructions and a map.

All of our lectures are free to the public as an educational service.

OUR SPEAKER FOR 17 NOVEMBER 2009 WAS:
Mr. Erasmo Piñero Jr.
The F-35 Lightning II: A Program Update.

See our President's message in
the left panel for details.

Remember, this meeting will be held at:

UNT Health Science Center
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd
Room 108, Main Building
Fort Worth, Texas
7:00 P. M.

The Last B-36 has gone to Arizona but our history remains here.  Please visit the History Section of our website often for memories from our aviation past.

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Wing Commander Dermott Lang Allen, AFC RAF
Who was this Fort Worth aviation pioneer?

Click the picture to discover part of our aviation heritage.

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Airship ZR-1 "Shenandoah" departing Fort Worth 9 October 1924
Fort Worth played a strategic role in the golden age of airships during the 1920s.

Click the picture to learn more.

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Why is this building on the N.E. corner of 7th and Main an historic Fort Worth aviation landmark?

Click the picture to discover another part of our city's aviation heritage.

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Fort Worth Meacham International Airport
Fort Worth Meacham International Airport is the oldest municipal airport in North Texas.

Click the picture to learn how Meacham Field has shaped aviation history in North Texas.

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A history article was submitted by Mr. Frank Kleinwechter before his recent death.  It is a reprint of a speech delivered by Amon Carter, Jr., on the day the last B-36 left Carswell Air Force Base.

Click here to learn What the B-36 has Meant to Fort Worth.

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 See THIS PAGE for photos of James Anderson's giant RC model of the Last B-36.

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Click this link to learn what became of Greater Southwest International Airport - Amon Carter Field.

"It was all plowed into the ground!"

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Beautiful color and B/W movie history of the B-36.
Buy this B-36 history video in our gift shop.
New revised version on DVD.

 

B-36: Saving the Last Peacemaker on CD-ROM. The complete history of the last B-36 built by Consolidated Vultee.
The complete history of the Last B-36 is
available on CD-ROM from our gift shop

Great airplanes don't simply appear in history, they evolve through a myriad of technological, political, and economic processes. In this book you will experience one of the most unlikely developments in aviation history - the Convair B-36 PEACEMAKER nuclear bomber. From its beginnings during the world's greatest conflict through construction in a former wild-west cattle town and deployment into the Cold War, the story of the Convair B-36 and how it intimidated the Soviet Union can now be told. Within this book the reader will experience life during the Cold War as our parents and grandparents lived it. You will meet military leaders, politicians, cowboys, tycoons - and a cowboy tycoon - who worked together to save the free world from domination by a communist dictator. You will also see up-close the amazing technological capabilities of aviation at the beginning of the nuclear age and how they were manifested in the B-36 PEACEMAKER.
A totally new study of the B-36
era from Specialty Press written
by renowned aviation author 
Dennis R. Jenkins and our very
own historian Don Pyeatt.
Available for pre-release
orders from Amazon.com.
Click here for details and to order.

B-36 caps and shirts are now on sale
and don't miss the new B-36 shoulder
patches and lapel pins.

Please visit the gift shop.

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WANT TO LEARN MORE
ABOUT THE B-36 ERA?
SEE: www.B-36.net

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