Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Convair X-6
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- Reason
- It's a plane meant to be powered by nuclear energy. Technical quality is good for its age, and the coolness factor makes me feel like a little boy again, imagining holing up against zombies in the Diefenbunker... (I was, needless to say, a little strange)
- Articles in which this image appears
- Convair X-6, Nuclear powered aircraft, +2
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air
- Creator
- United States Air Force
- Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:37, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- Very interesting historical photograph. 109.153.225.51 (talk) 13:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support – Aviation-history EV. Interesting that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union developed test planes but soon abandoned their programs. (Hard to understand how a nuke could actually "power" a jet or turboprop engine.) Sca (talk) 14:50, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- I'm guessing it was a "small" (how many meters? five? ten?) reactor. Theoretically, such an airplane could stay up indefinitely... no small wonder why they wanted to make it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:17, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support Interesting. Brandmeistertalk 17:53, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support EV is huge, and looks visually captivating... gazhiley 08:45, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support - I'm positively glowing with envy that you've found this *a-hyuk-hyuk-hyuk* --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:27, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support - Stellar...-Godot13 (talk) 16:05, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support -Jobas (talk) 00:02, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support - P. S. Burton (talk) 23:03, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support I can't understand why we don't have nuclear powered planes; sounds so safe. Belle (talk) 23:43, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
- But in case of a crash.... likely a nuclear boom. Check out Sergei Preminin who manually prevented an impending nuclear meltdown on a submarine at the cost of his own life. Brandmeistertalk 11:40, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
- Support Lemon martini (talk) 01:11, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:NB-36H with B-50, 1955 - DF-SC-83-09332.jpeg --Armbrust The Homunculus 00:54, 15 July 2015 (UTC)