Recommend books on B-36, F-4 ??

The Squadron B-36 book is okay, but you can find easily as much photo and design info on the web as in the book:

Or check out the movie "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, which is chock-full of amazing B-36 footage.

Pat

Highly Recommended is "Magnesium Overcast - The Story Of The Convair B-36" by Dennis Jenkins. There is a companion Photobook but I do not know the title.

Jack G.

Some of the best B-36 video from that movie is on You Tube. Just do a search for B-36 on You Tube to find it. There are several other good B-36 videos there that I'd never seen before too. As far as F-4 stuff what are you (the OP) looking for exactly? There are a ton of F-4 Phantom books out there, each with its own features to recommend it. Are you looking for photos? A history? A walk-around? War stories? Modeling guide? USAF? Navy? Foreign? Scott Wilson

well dang it. The F-4 is the first airplane I remember growing up with in the 60's so howabaout photos, brief history, walkaround, USAF and Navy.

does that help ?

Craig

Their's a brief appearance of a B-36 with its gun turrets extended in the Howard Hughes movie "Jet Pilot" when they are practicing a night intercept.

Pat

For walkarounds, I definitely recommend the Lock-On series. They did one on the F-4E and one on the British Phantoms which include the FG.1, FGR.2 and F-4J(UK). Squadron just did a Walkaround on the F-4E but I don't have it yet so I don't know how good or accurate it is. The older Detail & Scale books were okay, but suffered from too many black and white photos (not particularly good for modelers trying to use the right colors in their models) and quite a few errors in the text and photo captions. For photo books, there are a number of good ones. The Detail & Scale Colors & Markings series has several good F-4 books wit plenty of good photos. You could also join our F-4Discussion group on Google, we have several people (myself included) who frequently post some darned nice photography. Scott Wilson