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CAPHAVOC

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13. B-52

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 18, 2012, 10:28 AM

Mar 2012

In person is awesome. As a kid my Grandfather would take me to the road at the end of the runway at McCoy AFB in Orlando to wathch them take off. Amazing.

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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