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Re: In 10 years, there'll still be B-52's........ :0)
Posted by Scott WRG Editor on Thu Nov 22, 2001 09:27:13 PM
In reply top In 10 years, there'll still be B-52's........ :0) posted by Tony on Thu Nov 22, 2001 07:40:04 AM
: Because when it has to be there, absolutely on time with t
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: Tony
True, B-52's will be flying long after the B-2's are scrapped for maintenance reasons. I wonder if the B-52's will ever be refitted with turbofans to replace those sausage smokers it uses now.
I used to play on the B-52 gate guardian at Andersen AFB, Guam when I was a kid. The memories are flooding back..
Scott
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: : There really wasn't a single incident that got me hooked
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: : I grew up around naval aircraft, primarily EP-3 Orions o
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: : VQ-2 on Guam as well as earlier my father was with VQ-1
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: : ying EA-3 Skywarriors. Later my was shop chief of a engi
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: : overhaul shop at Oceana NAS. I sepnt quite a bit of tim
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: : When I was younger jets ruled. Loved them to death. As I
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: : et older the aircraft I like get older as well, give me
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: : other 20 years and the WRG will primarily be about WWI a
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: : Anyways I still love jets as well as props. I was thrill
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: : to see the F-4D Phantom II of the Collins Foundation fl
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: : at Otis AFB with Gen. Ritchie at the controls this last
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: : mmer. I hope the Air Force and the Navy realize that the
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: : ay to preserve our aviation past is to start now. In ten
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: : ears I hope there still be A-6's and A-10's flying somew
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: : Scott