One of the most massive things I've ever built, and it's only the beginning.

The Convair YB-60 was a prototype heavy bomber built by Convair for the United States Air Force in the early 1950s. It was a purely jet-powered development of Convair's earlier mixed-power B-36 Peacemaker.

The YB-60 had 72% parts commonality with its piston-engined predecessor. The fuselages of the two aircraft were largely identical although the radar and bombing systems were located in a removable nose section as a result of the poor reliability of the B-36 installation. For initial flight testing a more streamlined nose with an instrumented boom was fitted; a wedge-shaped insert was added just outboard of the main landing gear to increase wing sweep and the tail surfaces were swept to match. The swept wings also used many B-36 parts. A steerable tail wheel was added to prevent the aircraft tipping backwards. It was not necessarily extended when on the ground but depended on how the aircraft was loaded.

The YB-60 is by far one of the biggest aircraft I've ever built, only rivaled in sheer size by the R-531 Mobera, and although the J.1000 has a bigger wingspan, it's a little under 100ft shorter, so even it is smaller in overall size. It's also one of the more complex, having a detailed bomb bay that's as accurate as I could get, since interior shots of the real plane are hard to come by, so I work off of some photoa of the plane it's based off of, the B-36.

Technically speaking, the YB-60 was made to haul large atomic bombs, but I decided to give it a conventional load, because I don't have any a-bombs made yet, and honestly, it was already a challenge making this thing, and giving it a detailed bomb bay. I may give it a detailed cockpit in the future, if it gets enough attention. But it's only the start of a lineup of big planes.

Uses standard flight controls. AG1 to open bomb bay doors.