You always have the crazest ideas TB!!! 

Love it!  A nuclear powered B-17.  Sounds very Buck Rogers.

What's the plan, fuse the nuke subs hull with the wings and nose of the B-17?  Or simply stuff the nuke's guts into the B-17?

Either way would look cool especially with being able to see the reactors.

You ever read "Armageddon 2419", the story that inspired Buck Rogers?  It's a classic bit of sci-fi pulp fun.

The NB-36 made hundreds of flights, about half with a running reactor.

Bill

Oh No!

    She would be a B-77. A true inheriter of the B-17 toughness but with more than that single ability, surpassed by her ability not only to fly by use of hydraulically retracted wings,  But how about this, To go where no man has gone before, or have a dinner in the Marianas Trench with the fishes ala 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. Oh! and some of that hardware too!

   The Pilots area in thought only, could be raised ala,"Nautilus "fashion to help see where the next seacraft to attack would be! With retractable saw tooth riser in the center. Side windows on the 17? Well, the lounge/library area with a pipe organ off to the side and shelves of books!

 I'm gonna stop now, I have another ship to build before the parts get to me.

PhoenixG

Love it!  A nuclear powered B-17.  Sounds very Buck Rogers.

What's the plan, fuse the nuke subs hull with the wings and nose of the B-17?  Or simply stuff the nuke's guts into the B-17?

Either way would look cool especially with being able to see the reactors.

You ever read "Armageddon 2419", the story that inspired Buck Rogers?  It's a classic bit of sci-fi pulp fun.

 

Thanks for the tip, just downloaded it from Project Gutenburg :)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32530

I love the old Si-Fi, fun, easy reading.

TB - Did this idea get off the ground?

It does sound like it would have been a fun, fantasy, kitbash project

Nah!

    A neighbor's son, visiting me saw the Sub and I gave it to hi. Geez whatta fuss he made, woulda thought I gave him all the Gold in Fort Knox!!