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man4allcats

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11. Shades of Dr. Strangelove

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sun Mar 18, 2012, 09:09 AM

Mar 2012

"Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen!" | Slim "Major Kong" Pickens from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes

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New B-52 Low Flyby of Aircraft Carrier (very low-Good Lawd!) [View all] Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 OP

Nerves of steel...no so much.... ChunderingTruth Mar 2012 #1

Yeah, it's a wonder they put people in them at all. dems_rightnow Mar 2012 #4

"Jet exhaust frying chickens in the barnyard" longship Mar 2012 #2

A B-52 would be 15% of the length of a Forrestal-class carrier Nostradammit Mar 2012 #3

It isn't the size so much Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 #5

Oh I get that - I was just trying to help "longship" understand the scale Nostradammit Mar 2012 #8

B-52 CAPHAVOC Mar 2012 #13

The scale is fine muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #6

I was in the Navy, and worked at NASA with it's B-52 parked outside, the scale looks right to me. denbot Mar 2012 #7

Yep, nothing can stop the US Air Force MrScorpio Mar 2012 #9

Except their own planes Paulie Mar 2012 #10

Shades of Dr. Strangelove man4allcats Mar 2012 #11

old picture Demonaut Mar 2012 #12

I was there on the flight deck carew97 Nov 2012 #14