Posted on 11/29/2001 6:03:17 AM PST by gortklattu
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:31:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
One veteran celebrating its 50th birthday Thursday may be among the most influential in the latter half of the 20th century.
It was 50 years ago
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That would be the XB-70, of which exactly two were built. One crashed during a bloody photo-op, the other was grounded and is now on display inside the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Many lessons from the XB-70 program went into the design of the B-1, but Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent was never operational. Sometimes the ignorance of the newsies annoys me.
AB
Do you have a coherent point to make or are you simply babbling?.
The events of 9/11 would be difficult to achieve in a B-52 as the cockpit is segregated from the rest of the aircraft.
Can you let us all know what the Federal nannies have done to date to prevent the same thing from happening again?.
---max
That B52 has quite a combat record, as I remember. Is anybody here familiar with it?
I thought it was obvious.
HAPPY BUFF-DAY YA BIG LUG!!!!!!!
I think a suitable birthday present would be numerous sorties over a certain mountain top complex near Tora-Bora.
So9
There are all sorts of "prevention" pieces of legislation in the some 4,000-plus bills in congress today. A word search turned out almost 50 bills with "prevention" in the title.
Last year I submitted a proposal for legislation called "The Prevention of Illegal Acts Act." It prevented illegal acts by making them illegal. Of course, this shows how ridiculous the word 'prevention' is.
As far as the feds go, I will do what I can do to 'prevent' further terrorist acts. I'm not counting on the feds to do anything.
While we were waiting at the airport to return home, an F16 fighter jet was in the process of taking off. It seemed to leap off the runway and go almost straight up. The commercial jet that we were travelling on however had a drastically different experience.
It seemed to take forever just to barely leave the ground and once we finally got off the ground, we barely gained altitude.
We were going so fast with the wheels still on the ground, I was afraid that we were going to have a blowout.
Because of the high altitude, the engines lose a lot of their power and the wings don't have as much lift.
If I remember correctly, Colorado Springs was about 10,000 feet up and Pikes Peak was 14,110 feet above ground level.
It was obvious, gort. LOL.
Some of the folks on here are just bristling to throw a fit. It's like a horse that can't tell the difference between a carrot and your fingers...
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