And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In the 70s I was stationed at an AFB with a Bomb Wing. When the wind blew the wrong way the B-52s took off right over the barracks. No noise abatement on those bad boys, it would damn near rattle the windows out of their frames.
Fearsome as they may appear to be, as the Germans discovered with the Stuka, when the other side throws something that can shoot them down at them, its another story- which I believe was shown when Nixon ordered B52 strikes against Hanoi.
Mind blowing.
ReplyDeleteElephant Walk!
ReplyDeleteIf I remember right they can rotate their tailwheel for crosswind landings. It's like a building with wings.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't a tail wheel. The main gear can be canted relative to the fuselage for cross wind landings.
DeleteBUFF = Big Ugly Fat F*cker...
ReplyDeleteThat thing has flaps like most planes have wings.
ReplyDeleteAs the drunk B52 pilot told me one afternoon at some airport bar, "Door to door nuclear power".
ReplyDeleteOld joke from pilot training:
ReplyDeleteWhat are the saddest three words in the Air Force?
“Fuel on eight…”
eight burnin none turnin
ReplyDeleteIn the 70s I was stationed at an AFB with a Bomb Wing. When the wind blew the wrong way the B-52s took off right over the barracks. No noise abatement on those bad boys, it would damn near rattle the windows out of their frames.
ReplyDeleteFearsome as they may appear to be, as the Germans discovered with the Stuka, when the other side throws something that can shoot them down at them, its another story- which I believe was shown when Nixon ordered B52 strikes against Hanoi.
ReplyDeleteThat was idiotic tactics dictated by generals in Washington. After the near-revolt of the crews, they were unleashed for real using modern tactics.
DeleteI seem to recall the commies came back to the negotiating table after the Buffs unloaded a few tons of boom . . ..
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