{"product_id":"convair-yb-60-hugh-harkins-9781519690715","title":"Convair YB-60: Fort Worth Overcast","description":"Convair YB-60 The Consolidated Vultee (Convair) YB-36G intercontinental bomber design emerged in 1950 as a low cost development of the Convair B-36F intercontinental bomber. The new design, which was subsequently re-designated YB-60 in 1951, featured a swept back wing and was powered by eight turbojet engines in a similar arrangement to that seen on the rival Boeing XB\/YB-52 bomber. Although there was no official competition, the YB-60 would find itself in direct comparison to the smaller, more versatile Boing aircraft, the latter proving to have far better all-round performance than that of the YB-60 in most important respects, not least of which was speed. This volume describes the YB-36G\/YB-60 design iterations leading to flight test of the No.1 YB-60 prototype and the program cancellation in August 1952, by which time the No.2 YB-60, under construction to the final YB-60 design iteration, was around 90% complete. The rival Boeing B-52 went into production in a number of variants, culminating in the turbofan powered B-52H that continues in service in the second decade of the 21st century, more than sixty years after the first flight of the YB-60 and YB-52 prototypes in April 1952.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh Harkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1519690711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781519690715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.13d","brand":"Hugh Harkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985448239359,"sku":"9781519690715","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86147775-427f-4854-9081-fb6de3611939.jpg?v=1683277631","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/convair-yb-60-hugh-harkins-9781519690715","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}