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Sixty years on, the B-52 is still going strong
CNET ^
| April 15, 2012
| by Jonathan E. Skillings
Posted on 04/15/2012 6:32:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Never, ever felt anxiety.
Just immense pride and the B-52 was a VERY big symbol of that.
Fly on, BUFF.
To: FreeAtlanta
Can you imagine the day when it is still flying and there isn't anyone who was alive on the day they first took flight? There are already cases of pilots flying the same aircraft, by tail number than their grandfather had flown. :) But not really the same airplane. New avionics a couple of times, not counting all the different EW fits. They've removed the tail gun. (Only took 20-30 years or so, but they just about had it approved, when some sergeant shot down a MiG over North Vietnam. :) But it made me sick to see a BUFF in a maintenance hanger at Tinker about 10 years ago, with no tail gun, just a rather ugly fairing. They haven't scrapped the guns, nor done anything to preclude remounting them, AFAIK.
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posted on
04/15/2012 11:27:32 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: hinckley buzzard
To be replaced by what? This:
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posted on
04/15/2012 11:29:27 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(He who commands, must obey.)
To: Paladin2
Slide Rules Rule! I went through Engineering college using them.
But I like my computer, thank you very much. I've even simulated a BUFF on one. A somewhat crude 2 dimensional model. Sufficient for demonstrating you fly with an automatic terrain following system.
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posted on
04/15/2012 11:30:40 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: JRandomFreeper
They sound the same. They should have the same components, but I can hear the fan, which the H models have and none of the others did. Of course the most distinctive fan sound is that of the C-5. But they are re-engining those,at least the B and C models, so they may sound different soon. Or not. The ones from the Reserve unit at Lackland still sound the same to me. I can tell when one is in the pattern at Ft. Hood, from inside my house.
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posted on
04/15/2012 11:49:50 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: edpc
Back in the day I used to go to the airshows at Burpelson.
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:41:01 AM PDT
by
starlifter
(Pullum sapit)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I had just started out as a junior engineer back in the early 80's. I was doing a project at Ellsworth. During the briefing and safety meeting I was lectured firmly about OpSec. Do not cross the painted line. If you must then two will assist you. If you cross without the two then another one will shoot you.
It was a great honor to be there even though I kept wanting to say yes sir with emphasis.
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:58:53 AM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: WMarshal
"I grew up in SE Montana in late 70s / early 80s and once while hiking in the hills outside of town I looked down at a B52 flying radar evasion missions." Yes, I remember those flights. (We lived on a ranger station in SE Montana.) You could feel the vibrations as it approached, and then it would appear over the crest of the hill flying so low you could almost touch it, disappearing almost immediately over the next mountain. Very impressive flying.
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posted on
04/16/2012 1:47:34 AM PDT
by
Liberty Wins
(Newt --named after Isaac Newton?)
To: NVDave
"The B-52 isnt subtle"
OH Yeah!
Great post! Every word rings true.
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posted on
04/16/2012 4:06:32 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: South Dakota
I lived and worked at Carswell AFB in Ft.Worth TX( 301st TWF). The biggest thrill I ever got was when they(BUFFS) had an ORE and all of them (8 and armed) fired up and took off.I was on the flight line at the end of the runway waiting on our F-4S to be armed for escort. They took off first,I could not comphrend the noise,the size and thrust of these beasts.I still get cold chills to this day thinking about that 35 mins in my life, not to mention their retutn.
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posted on
04/16/2012 4:33:18 AM PDT
by
VF-51vnv
To: A.A. Cunningham
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posted on
04/16/2012 4:55:52 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
To: diogenes ghost
Sounds like that made a big impression on you..neat memory to have.
An elderly gentleman in his 80's) in my new parish is retired USAF..he was a navigator on 52s..I'm just getting to know him..will have to get him reminiscing....
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posted on
04/16/2012 5:02:01 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
To: Krankor
Tanks?
could dig some shock-and-awe.
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posted on
04/16/2012 6:21:06 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(I think in about 5 - no, 4 - years I'll have had enough.)
To: zot
Thank you for mentioning post 17. I had not noticed it when I saw the article. I’ll tuck the info away for future reference.
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posted on
04/16/2012 7:03:49 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: VF-51vnv
Thanks for mentioning the OREs. I’d forgotten about seeing them, and fortunately, I saw several of them take place. They were truly mesmerizing every time I watched them. I took pictures of a number of them but, alas, that camera was stolen with the film inside.
To: Mad Dawgg
Lots ‘o LOUD moments at the old Cleveland Stadium, & sitting 4th row in front of the house PA at Public Hall when Kieth Emerson fired up his Moog 3c made your whole body resonate to that sub-sub base synth, but it must have really something to see the BUFF live - WAY COOL!
Quick sidebar. While coming home from a Browns game a few years ago on the Shoreway the same time as the Airshow was in progress I looked out the window and directly in front of me was a F-117 making an approach to Burke Airport at what seemed to be a hundred feet off the deck. It was almost totally noiseless, until it went past.
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posted on
04/16/2012 2:06:55 PM PDT
by
ADemocratNoMore
(Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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