US BOMBERS ARE BACK (B-52s arrive in Britain!)

Sky News ^ | 3/3/03

[poindexter]

Slim Pickins, report to the ready room!

[AnAmericanMother]

A DC-3 will apparently fly forever.

I was out at the West Georgia (Carrollton) airport years ago doing a cross-country - some time in the 70s, and as I hung around waiting for the gas truck I looked into a nearby hangar and saw a Gooney Bird with its wings off. I asked somebody what was going on and he said, "Oh, it's just having its 50,000 mile check!" (btw for you non-pilots, that's a LOT. Probably the rough equivalent of 200k on a car. And if your motor quits, you don't get to just pull over to the side of the road!)

I met one of the DuPonts who had a DC-3 completely refurbished from the ground up and flew around the Caribbean in it. That plane would fly into just about any strip in the Caribbean (except the one at Saba, which you have to be a little nutty even to fly a small Cessna into).

I never flew anything near that big . . .

[Sparta]

You know how to make my Lundi Gras night. Thank you.

[Cap Huff]

"Denmark's in the coalition."

I had not seen that. That's good.

[Cap Huff]

That is ominous. Just the mention of a B-52 must have a visceral effect on their leaders. Rather chilling on this side to think about what actions would be warned off. (Cold War feelings being rekindled.)

[Mark17]

Buffs are an awesome, ugly thing to behold.

LOL, maybe that is why they are called BUFFS.

[Natural Law]

The airframe design is your grandfathers age, but the similarities stop there.

[Robert_Paulson2]

indeed.

[RooRoobird14]

That's right!!! And "Bomber Puke" (as opposed to Tanker Toad) pilots take a lot of pride in the fact that they fly Big Ugly Fast F---ers!! LOL!!

[Mark17]

Big Ugly Fast F---ers!! LOL!!

Actually, I thought it was big ugly fat F---ers, but I could be wrong.

[RooRoobird14]

I actually heard both--fast and fat. (What do I know--I was just a Bomber Puke wife--LOL!!) If you asked an F-16 pilot, he'd say the first "f" stands for fat, NOT fast.:)