This thread is Good Stuff.
This thread is Good Stuff.
mazdeuce wrote: B-52's are really big. I used to go the summer camp outside K.I. Sawyer in the upper peninsula of Michigan. B-52's woudl take off and land right over the lake we'd swim and sail in. I'm sure it got old to the locals, but it never stopped being cool to me.
When I graduated from college in the late 1970s I interviewed with Boeing in Wichita. While touring the facility, they took me out to the flight line and let me peek inside a B-52 that was parked there; they are really big, and really, really cramped inside - they're crammed full of electronic stuff.
We all know that the real war will be won by boots on the ground by fine servicemen like Private Idaho here.
I heard one of the main battalions invading Mesopotamia has 52 girls fighting in it. These are the girls of the USA.
I heard that with only one mid-air refueling they can fly as far as planet Claire.
HappyAndy wrote: I heard that with only one mid-air refueling they can fly as far as planet Claire.
I heard much like a Plymouth satellite, they are faster than the speed of light.
Love shack.
and the hangars have a tin roof, rusted
Tom_Spangler wrote: Love shack.
Yeah, but it'll have to be renamed the Deadbeat Club after the big Whammy.
There won't be any need to knock a little louder, sugar, the bombs will do a good enough job bang, bang, banging on the door.
I got me a Boeing and it's as big as a whale, and it'd about to set sail...
Seats about 20?
They will roam around the world
"What in the wild wild word of sports is going on around here!"
KyAllroad wrote: When I was in Desert Storm I was laying on top of my ambulance on the night of the start of the air campaign. It looked like all the stars were moving past me and winking out. It was aircraft turning off their marker beacons as they crossed the border. That was a quarter century ago and the BUFFS were nearly 40 years old then! Some Air Force guy said once that when you had absolute air superiority you could drop bombs out of a dump truck, and that's about what a B-52 is. Aerial dump truck.
Hell, might as well pull the old b36's out of the museums for the ISIS Dbags.....not like they could stop it anyways.
BUFF trivia moment: When loaded with double MERs on the external hardpoints, the BUFF can carry a maximum bomb-count load (not tonnage load, individual bomb count) of one hundred and eight MK82 500 pounders. With said load of 108 bombs, a vic formation of just three B-52s executing a dense coverage carpet run can essentially kill every single human, animal, and insect in swath 1/4 mile wide by aproximately 3/4 mile long. Litterally every animal life form in that rectangle, gone. Yeah, ISIS et al has good reason to fear the BUFFs.
In reply to WildScotsRacing:
Ah...but which model(?)
Third generation pilots fly these things.
My wife's old boyfriend flew B-52s.
joey48442 wrote: I think the may be bombing them back to Mesopotamia. People 1,000 miles away will be woken by the blast from a Deep Sleep. I don't have anymore puns, so I feel like Making A Cake.
The Mesopotamia reference got me. 
I have to say, as a native of where the B52's are from, you folks know your B52's songs. Impressive.
crankwalk wrote:joey48442 wrote: I think the may be bombing them back to Mesopotamia. People 1,000 miles away will be woken by the blast from a Deep Sleep. I don't have anymore puns, so I feel like Making A Cake.The Mesopotamia reference got me.
Lights just went on, because I had no clue. Not that I opened the original link anyway. It was like one of those facebook clickbait number games.
Appleseed wrote: In reply to WildScotsRacing: Ah...but which model(?)
Gs or Hs, either or can be re-configured in a few hours by the weapons load team and crew chiefs. Not to mention the fact that no two of any the remaining BUFFs are mechanically identical anymore, anyway.
D model, Vietnam. Big belly mod (1966). If I remember correctly, the fuel tanks above the bomb bay were removed and a clip/rack system installed for rapid loading. It bumped the internal capacity from 27 to 84 500lb bombs. Together with the 24 on the wing pylons, it totalled 108.
they won't be eating rock lobster where they are going.
My Dad was a navigation tech in SAC the early 60's for the Houndog nuclear missiles that were wing launched from the 52s. I grew up hearing stories about them. He came back from leave one day in mid October of 1962 to find every 52 they had sitting on the runway with engines running. Every missile they had, even the non-flying ones, were hung under the wings and ready to go. They kept the aircraft sitting and running for over a day. When the lead aircraft would get low on fuel it would circle to the back and tank up while the line moved up one space.
Did you know that the wingspan on a 52 is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight?
There's a 52 at the air museum here in town that Dad actually worked on back then. When no one was looking we ducked inside the wheel wells and he showed me where his diagnostic and nav equipment mounted.
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