Imagine how history might have taken a different turn if the Air Force had gone with the competitor to the B-52,
the Convair successor to the B-36, the YB-60? A shame that none of the original prototypes are still around.
Posted on 11/23/2015 9:28:29 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Great! Love that people keep the old bombers going.
They spend 9 million on lunch
That makes sense, it was built by the greatest generation.
There is a B-52 in the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB. It’s rippled skin shows some of the stresses it went through. What a great old bird. That being said, I was on the runway one day attending a KC-135 and was near a B-1 bomber firing up. For some unknown reason I had a desire to salute the bird and it’s pilot and watched it taxi out and take off. I didn’t know at the time but this was it’s last flight to the Museum. I also had a small part in the design of it’s engines years before. The only aircraft in my opinion in America’s arsenal that says bring it, where ever you are. We should have made many more of them.
I walked onto, stood, and crawled around one, in the cub scouts, at an US Air Force Base in the 50’s. Great experience. Fell in love, with navigation/commo and servos.
The greatest generation was the founding fathers.
The genertion youare referring to was a good one, excdpt for the fact they raised the worst generation this country ever had.
I was a comm/nav man in my early days in the Marines, Phantoms and Intruders. Who would have thought I would go on to be a jet engine designer as well as an Air Force/Nasa/Darpa designer. I was gifted with work my whole career. I only want the same for our youthful countrymen.
Good deal. Thanks.
I never worked on any Alien projects, but I did have one of my projects mentioned on the X-files once, lol.
I know.
Would love to talk with you. I am heavily involved with a B-29 and a B-24. I am crew on these planes and toured with them twice this year.
And of course, we both know that “Hang the Expense” is a famous name. How can I contact you?
$305 M for Lot 13 contract, the fifth production lot for JASSM-ER, which received full-rate production approval last year.
So it’s a mult-billion program.
$9M to $305 M — hey, it’s a rounding error for the author. He’s a journalist — he didn’t study. math.
I see no reason why they could not build more except it would not be a boon for the crooked politicians and the industrial complex!!!
You got that right!
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The career politicians in congress are so corrupt they’ve abdicated their power to obama.
Perhaps term limits would have helped?
Gee, a B-29 AND a B-24. I wonder what warbird group you are with ...
;-)
I knew I couldn’t fool you. ;-)
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