Posted on 03/17/2019 12:22:01 PM PDT by Cecily
This is the incredible moment enormous American B-52 bombers land at a RAF base in the largest US bomber deployment to the UK since the Iraq war.
Amazing photos and video footage have captured the impressive US planes landing at RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, their new temporary base.
Their arrival on Thursday and Friday came ahead of a NATO exercise in Georgia, which will be a show of force against Vladimir Putin's neighbouring Russia - though it is unclear if the B-52s will be involved.
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My Great-grandpa was born in 1868, was eight years old when Custer was killed, and lived long enough to see the B-52 come into service. I still remember him.
Wonder how many others have a connection to the past. Today’s youth have never known people from the wild old days.
They’d be a nice solution for that last enclave of ISIS holdouts in Syria.
They are beautiful birds
My grandmother was 6 or 7 when the Wright Brothers flew, lived to see man on the moon as well as the Space Shuttle. She died at age 101. My mother who died last year at 99 saw the Graf Zeppelin fly over her town in New Jersey. I, as a lad had B-36s fly over my elementary school. They shook the earth.
By landing at the RAF base the B-52s are already involved even if they only go home when they next they fly.
My dad flew in B-36s and B-47s when he was in SAC. This was when the US always had nuclear equipped bombers in the air at all times. Long after he retired, he told me they had orders to bomb Leningrad if they got the green light.
My Great Grandpa was a Great Lakes ore freighter captain. I do not remember him but I remember his yellkkkkow brick house full of nautical stuff and massive furniture with a widow’s walk on the roof from which I could see Lake Erie when I was four.
For planes that go halfway back to Kitty Hawk they are still awesome.
If a bear sh-ts in the woods, was a Buff the last thing it ever heard?
“the largest US bomber deployment to the UK”
What for? To defend the Islamic Republic of Formerly Great Britain?
The country that bans American commentators who have mainstream American views? Are there any hard line British Communists prevented from entering the United States?
Other then Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and the remnant English population outside London, Birmingham and the other Muslimized areas, there’s nothing there and no one left who we have any connection to. No reason to deploy military assets to defend our enemies.
My grandfather moved from one state up another in a covered wagon in the late 1880s. He was about five years old then. My grandmother about the same age lived long enough to see men walk on the moon.
My mothers grandmother was born in the mid 60’s, that’s the 1860’s. One time she told me the story of how excited her father was after going to hear Abraham Lincoln speak before his election to president and how he used to love to share the story. She shared this with me in the 1950’s. I always enjoyed knowing I was only one ear away from an ear that heard Lincoln speak.
In the 1950’s feelings were still strong with some people over the Civil War. The country was still reveling in the knowledge that we had won the 2nd World War and were relatively unscathed by the war except for the death of so many soldiers. We were the manufacturing leaders of the world.
People today don’t understand what this country is and why it is. People today are willing to succumb to the Socialism nonsense that floods our airways and schools. It is truly a shame.
I was friends with a guy, now deceased who flew B-36s alone with just about everything else from 1944-1968.
After he retired, he worked as an instructor at Ft. Rucker. They asked if he was qualified for twin engines, he replied that he was qualified for 10.
He said that in the early days, only 3 bases, one of them Eglin could handle the B-36 because it took a very long runway to take off.
Four burning and six turning, eh?
He actually used that exact phrase.
Offutt AFB is flooded.
My great grandfather was born in 1867 and still had his wits about him until age 99. He watched the Gemini program spacecraft on the tv.
You should check out some of the Civil War threads here sometime.
A friend of my dad flew the “peacemaker”. When he retired from the AF he bought a beech bonanza and promptly came in hot at a local private grass strip, and went through the fence at the far end. Nobody was hurt. After flying considerably hotter aircraft for years, he just couldn’t get used to flying that slow until that incident.
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