Plans call for the manufacture of 10,000 front and rear air-suspension pieces for use within China and an undisclosed number of landing gear to be produced for China and other Pacific Rim countries.

A track-style landing gear, although complex, would result in the lowest possible pressure on the XB-36's operating surface. So Convair moved forward with testing of such a system.

Nevertheless, experiments with tracked landing gear pushed forward and by the end of the decade, Boeing had affixed a set to a B-50B Superfortress.

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