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B-52 celebrates 60 Years
USAF Global Strike Command ^
| 4/11/2012
| Staff Sgt. Brian Stives & Megan Meyer
Posted on 04/11/2012 8:58:30 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
The B.U.F.F is my lifetime favorite. Just a big heap of awesomeness.
A fading symbol of the land of my birth.
To: sukhoi-30mki
For those who might wonder what might have happened if there had either been NO
B-52,
or if a different design had been embraced?
Behold the Consolidated Vultee YB-60, CONVAIR's proposed successor to the B-36:
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posted on
04/11/2012 11:13:21 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Finley Peter Dunne- "Politics ain't beanbag")
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
04/12/2012 12:11:51 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
04/12/2012 12:14:49 AM PDT
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Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
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04/12/2012 12:17:15 AM PDT
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Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: RobbyS
Back in the mid 60s, I worked at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota. One of our jobs was located next to the runway fence. To see those 52s doing touch and goes was awe inspiring. The power as they accelerated (at a seemingly impossible angle) was chill producing.
To: freedumb2003; Surrounded_too; RobbyS; Seaplaner; calex59; Rockingham; Jack Hydrazine
Thanks - I didn’t know any of that.
To: ROCKLOBSTER
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posted on
04/12/2012 7:43:56 AM PDT
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: Straight8
The maneuverablity of these giant plane is astonishing. But of course even with commercial airlines it is something else. Yes, ago, I was on a flight when some dumb private pilot strayed right into the path of the plane I was on as we were aappraching (737). To avoid a collision, the pilot pulled up and away, after yelling, hold on!Man, no carnival ride could match that turn. Luckily even the flight attendents were buckled in.
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04/12/2012 10:00:45 AM PDT
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RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: Straight8
The maneuverablity of these giant plane is astonishing. But of course even with commercial airlines it is something else. Yes, ago, I was on a flight when some dumb private pilot strayed right into the path of the plane I was on as we were aappraching (737). To avoid a collision, the pilot pulled up and away, after yelling, hold on!Man, no carnival ride could match that turn. Luckily even the flight attendents were buckled in.
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04/12/2012 10:01:00 AM PDT
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RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: Jack Hammer
Why havent all these been replaced by the B-2? The B-52 was built during the era of the Cold War fighting the Red Menace. As a result, over 700 of them were built.
Subsequent aircraft such as the B-1B and the B-2A were built to replace the B-52 in the most critical roles of nuclear deterrent, but they were very expensive.
With so many B-52s in inventory, they can be used very cheaply where payload is more important than deep penetration over hostile territory.
I believe we're down to under 100 active B-52s, so they all will eventually wear out, but no need to replace them all if they're still flyable and can perform a certain mission at a lower cost than buying a new aircraft.
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04/12/2012 10:26:52 AM PDT
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Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: freedumb2003
War gives urgency to things. The story of the B-29 is instructive. It went to drawing board to operational in about five years. A light year ahead of the B-17. Much the same for the P.51. The Germans leap=frogged all this with the jet. Thank God that Hitler rushed the invasion of the Soviet Union. With two more years to build up and improve his arsenal, I am pretty sure that Goering would have had had operational jets in the skies. We would have still be fighting that war in 1950.
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04/12/2012 6:28:36 PM PDT
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RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: RobbyS
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04/13/2012 12:27:26 PM PDT
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freedumb2003
('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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