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Why haven’t all these been replaced by the B-2?
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.)
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
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.")
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.")
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:
22 posted on
04/11/2012 11:13:21 PM PDT by
mkjessup
(Finley Peter Dunne- "Politics ain't beanbag")
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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