B-52 Fans (Not the Rock Group)

[GentleBen]

Here is a B-1B doing something that neither the B-52 nor the B-2 can do. . . flying through Mach 1.

[69camfrk]

Originally Posted by Aflac

If you can get one off the ground! I remember them coming to Red Flag with us (they parked right beside us) and brought 4 airplanes and only one ever moved. The other 3 shit all over themselves. And the neat thing about the patch Harry posted is that is the only patch in the US military authorized to have the mushroom cloud in it. We (509 BW) dropped both of them in Japan.
I was one of the last in the original wave of airmen that were assigned to work these...

Hmmmmm......The good ol B-2. Ugly as sin, slow, as in WILL NOT GO WARP SPEED. Agreed that the B-1's had some growing pains, but when we had them in the Guard, we made them work, but that was mostly due to the vast experience of the folks we had working on them.

[C5Nate]

Originally Posted by Dan Dlabay

The B-52 is my favorite jet bomber. I remember back in the 60's when there was a SAC base at Wright Patterson Air Force base it was cool to watch the B-52's taking off on a practice mission. (at lest that's what we all hoped it was) Thanks for sharing.

Back in the '60's the military hosted many "On The Base" Boy Scout outings where we stayed overnight in the barracks. (recruitment)

Offut AFB, SAC headquarters, near Omaha, Nebraska is somewhat close to Kansas City.

Offut was one of our favorite outings. We would always coordinate a weekend where the B52's would be on a training exercise with several landings and takeoffs.

Fort Riley (Kansas) home of the Big Red One was also a favorite, we got to shoot guns and crawl around in tanks there!

[boracayjohnny]

Originally Posted by C5Nate

Back in the '60's the military hosted many "On The Base" Boy Scout outings where we stayed overnight in the barracks. (recruitment)

Offut AFB, SAC headquarters, near Omaha, Nebraska is somewhat close to Kansas City.

Offut was one of our favorite outings. We would always coordinate a weekend where the B52's would be on a training exercise with several landings and takeoffs.

Fort Riley (Kansas) home of the Big Red One was also a favorite, we got to shoot guns and crawl around in tanks there!

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[FasterTraffic]

Originally Posted by GentleBen

Here is a B-1B doing something that neither the B-52 nor the B-2 can do. . . flying through Mach 1.

The B-1B is a sexy airplane, especially for a bomber.