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1 posted on 04/11/2012 8:58:34 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Speaking as someone who knows absolutely nothing about airplanes (and feel free to criticize) - shouldn’t we have something newer/better by now?

Why haven’t all these been replaced by the B-2?


2 posted on 04/11/2012 9:03:51 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: sukhoi-30mki

HEAVY METAL!!!!

Delivering the goods since 1952!


3 posted on 04/11/2012 9:04:05 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Computers apparently can’t beat a well handled sliderule.


4 posted on 04/11/2012 9:04:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: sukhoi-30mki

And it seems like just yesterday they were singing “Rock Lobster.”


5 posted on 04/11/2012 9:06:23 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: sukhoi-30mki
See the story in Greg Goebel's Air Vectors. Fair warning: once you go in you will spend a lot of time browsing all he has there. Enjoy!
18 posted on 04/11/2012 9:48:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Steyn: Obama sez: "Nice little Supreme Court you got here. Shame if anything were to happen to it.")
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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.


21 posted on 04/11/2012 11:03:02 PM PDT by myheroesareDeadandRegistered
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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:

22 posted on 04/11/2012 11:13:21 PM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne- "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

23 posted on 04/12/2012 12:11:51 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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