The Convair NB-36
I wonder who thought that replacing standard fuel engines with a nuclear reactor would be a good idea? I’m pretty sure the answer is out there in history, which brings us to the Convair NB-36. This monstrous creation was so dangerous that it needed to be followed by a whole other aircraft to supervise it each time it flew off into the sky. Which didn’t happen often mind you, less than fifty times to be precise, and then one clever soul decided that this was all a terrible mistake to be learned from.
The Convair NB36
The PZL M-15 Belphegor
The Belphegor was the initial biplane built way back in the year 1972 by the Polish aircraft company WSK PZL-Mielec for agricultural aviation. Its sole purpose was to be a crop duster but as it turned out, the price of its fuel far outweighed any agricultural profits it may have yielded. It was a jet-powered biplane with strange looks and a relatively loud engine, was therefore nicknamed after the noise demon prince of hell, Belphegor.
The PZL M 15 Belphegor
