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.
Growing up in Wichita, I remember picking Dad up from work at Boeing and seeing the row of B52s with tail guns. The absence of other guns, nose, waist etc. puzzled me. Dad said it was because it was so fast that the only threat would be behind it.
I was talking to an Airman out at Langley AFB back in the mid 80s. There were rows of them parked out there. He was mowing the infield and said he noticed one of the tail guns following him around. He got off the tracker and walked back in...
I worked a project for Emerson Electric, to build two more shipsets of the B-52 turret and radars for these guns. People speculated on how effective the 20mm Gatling might be, and a stock (comic) answer was that it at least gave the pilot a little more thrust.
RADAR Sight?
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in Wichita, I remember picking Dad up from work at Boeing and seeing the row of B52s with tail guns. The absence of other guns, nose, waist etc. puzzled me. Dad said it was because it was so fast that the only threat would be behind it.
ReplyDeleteGunners got two MiG's during Linebacker II, according to the Air Farce. The North Vietnamese, however, gave them credit for a third.........
ReplyDeleteI was talking to an Airman out at Langley AFB back in the mid 80s. There were rows of them parked out there. He was mowing the infield and said he noticed one of the tail guns following him around. He got off the tracker and walked back in...
ReplyDeleteI worked a project for Emerson Electric, to build two more shipsets of the B-52 turret and radars for these guns. People speculated on how effective the 20mm Gatling might be, and a stock (comic) answer was that it at least gave the pilot a little more thrust.
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