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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Museum logo design by Joe N. Carr ©2003.

 

MONTHLY PUBLIC MEETINGS DRAW LARGE CROWDS.
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2009 BOARD of DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED
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WELCOME TO
B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM INC.

Updated 21 June 2009

 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND NEWS UPDATE

 

We are proud to present:

OUR SPEAKER FOR 21 JULY 2009:
Major General Chris Adams, USAF (Ret)

Major General Chris Adams, USAF (Ret) will discuss “Deterrence, An Enduring Strategy” at the 21 July meeting of the B-36 Association. Adams will bring to the discussion his observations of the Cold War and the defining stratagem for victory in that 45-year impasse. Reflecting on his background including 21 years in Strategic Air Command as a B-36 and B-52G pilot, Minuteman ICBM crew commander, wing commander, air division commander, Deputy Director, Operations, Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations Plans and Chief of Staff, SAC, Associate Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory and working five years in the former Soviet Union, he has published six books, two non-fiction and four non-fiction spy novels on the Cold War. He will discuss the men and women who served during the period, the exacting discipline, the war machines, the exemplary commanders along with both serious and humorous anecdotes, and post-Cold War observations within former Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Belarus where he met his former Cold War adversaries.

Along the way, Adams also served as a C-141 pilot with MAC, C-47 pilot in TAC during Vietnam and six years with the Defense Nuclear Agency. He has been awarded the nations highest peacetime decoration, The Distinguished Service Medal, the Department of Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Legions of Merit, two Air Medals for service in Vietnam combat and numerous other awards. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Tarleton State University and Texas A&M University~Commerce and is listed in Who’s Who in America. General Adams will be available for signing copies of his books after the discussion.

To learn more about General Adams and to explore his books, visit his website: http://www.literarywerks.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 21 July 2009.

NOTE: Our meetings are now 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

OUR SPEAKER FOR 18 AUGUST 2009:
Mr. Dan Smith

Mr. Dan Smith, retired from 40 years with the United States Weather Bureau/National Weather Service, will present an intriguing description of the THUNDERSTORM PROJECT. 

In 1949 the Govt. Printing Office published a book titled "The Thunderstorm," authored by project leaders Horace Byers and Roscoe Braham, which summarized the project's results.  The significance of that volume can be summarized by noting simply that since its publication, no other volume in meteorology has been more cited or referenced.  What was learned during the Thunderstorm Project became -- and remains -- the cornerstone of our knowledge of thunderstorms.  The project was classified "secret" when it began in part because of the equipment which was utilized.  It was the first time radar was used to study weather.  In 1946 the short-wavelength portable radars that were employed were still in their shipping crates and had been bound for war in Japan!  All-weather radar-equipped P-61 ("Black Widow") aircraft  were also employed, making the project the first time aircraft -- including gliders, believe it or not -- were deliberately flown into storms to collect data.  (Incidentally, one of the P-61s used during the project was just recently put on display at the Smithsonian.)  From an historical perspective, what makes the project historic, aside from the results, is that it was in effect the first scientific weather study ever undertaken.

 

OUR SPEAKER FOR 15 SEPTEMBER 2009:
Mr. Don Pyeatt

Mr. Don Pyeatt, our very own aviation historian, will present a look back to the Cold War and efforts to produce a nuclear-powered aircraft at Air Force Plant 4 here in Fort Worth.  Check back for details as they develop.

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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, 21 July 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 ON 21 JULY 2009
will be
Major General Chris Adams, USAF (Ret).
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.

OUR SPEAKER FOR 18 AUGUST 2009:
Mr. Dan Smith, United States
Weather Bureau (Ret).
THE THUNDERSTORM PROJECT

OUR SPEAKER FOR 15 SEPTEMBER 2009:
Mr. Don Pyeatt
NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT PROPULSION

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

 

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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ABOUT THE B-36 ERA?
SEE: www.B-36.net

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