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Sunday, November 28, 2010

XAB-1 Beta-1 Atomic-Powered Bomber Papercraft

"In the 1950s, America's defense industry explored several radical ways to gain superiority over the rival Soviet Union. Convair's XAB-1 concept bomber employed two notions that were particularly fashionable during this Cold War peroid. One was the idea of atomic engines, power plants that could keep a plane airborne virtually indefinitely.The other idea was that of parasite fighters, high performance jets that were carried with the bomber and then released over enemy territory to provide airborne defense." 
XAB-1 Beta-1 Atomic-Powered Bomber Papercraft
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