...it was Iraq Lobster.
...it was Iraq Lobster.
Stop!
Haha, I needed a good laugh.
As for the aircraft, I'm sure those will be around for WW4.
Sometimes you just need something to drop stuff on things.
Why over complicate it.
(as for inappropriate topic: Not really. It certainly doesn't have to be, unless someone poops on it... )
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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.
aircooled wrote: (as for inappropriate topic: Not really. It certainly doesn't have to be, unless someone poops on it... )
Yeah, I'm hoping we can avoid any Shiny Happy People politicizing the issue, and just enjoy the myriad of possibility for puns and jokes.
CNN wrote: The B-52 is one of the oldest active aircraft in the Air Force...
They had me at "one of" so I had to google it, but I'm not finding anything. Is there any older aircraft in USAF service?
This is important step in helping to stop ISIS from roam where they want to.
In reply to petegossett:
KC-135 is up there too isn't it?
I have worked near that airbase in LA. Where they fly out of. When the sky turned black I thought it was a thundercloud. Somebody is fixin to have a bad day.
In reply to petegossett:
Trainers of some sort? It predates the C-130 and 135.
petegossett wrote:CNN wrote: The B-52 is one of the oldest active aircraft in the Air Force...They had me at "*one of*" so I had to google it, but I'm not finding anything. Is there any older aircraft in USAF service?
Yeah, I don't think there is. The C130 is a few years younger, but I am pretty certain they are not still using any original models. KC 135 is even newer then the C130.
Now, Edwards Air Force Base might have some older planes (maybe a T33?). It also has, I think, the only operational A model B52 left. It's the drop aircraft that gave Yeager (and many others) a bit of a boost.
This might be the only one:
I built a plastic Monogram model of a B-52 in 1961.
ain't no bombing like a carpet bombing cause a carpet bombing don't stop.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: ain't no bombing like a carpet bombing...
That would be my suspicion also, for area bombing troop concentrations, because a B52 can really bring the rain as they say. (They are apparently going to start retaking a major city soon and perhaps they want the ability to take out large groups as they try and leave)
I do wonder, if they have, or they could setup, laser designators with different signatures and do a mass guided bomb drop. Setting the bombs to the frequencies might be the issue.
In the lead photo in that CNN piece, am I looking at two B-52s that just landed on adjacent runways facing opposite directions? (Which seems kinda like showing off.) If not, what AM I looking at?
In reply to Stealthtercel:
Nearest B-52 is finishing its roll out after landing, farthest one is on a taxiway headed to parking ramp (I presume).
Looks like the plane in the foreground is on the runway in position waiting to take off. The one behind it appears to be on a taxiway approaching the runway. There is probably a line behind the second one, similar to how airliners line up when it's busy.
(or as above, could go either way)
In reply to mazdeuce:
My wife did 1st through 3rd grade at K. I. Sawyer, on base as her dad finished his final 30 years in the AF.
Left there about 1979
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.
the B52 is one of 4 aircraft that cause regular recurring nightmares in whoever we are currently mad at:
Apache helicopter
A10 Warthog
AC130 Spectre gunship
B52 Stratofortress
in the minds of those that we are up against, they are weapons of terror..
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.
I just read there are only 58 B52s in service now. I recall the old photographs of a bunch of them in the Arizona desert with the wings cut off and just laying there so the Russian satellites could verify they were destroyed.
I heard they had an air base in their Own Private Idaho.
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