Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Convair X-6

Convair X-6
Voting period ends on 15 Jul 2015  at 00:37:19 (UTC)
 * 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: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... gaz hiley  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 Nicolao Che 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)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 00:54, 15 July 2015 (UTC)