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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

How do you explain that? I thought Trump was reinforcing the military with megabucks??


1,750 posted on 05/22/2020 7:06:35 PM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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To: WaltStuart
I thought Trump was reinforcing the military with megabucks

Oh, yeah.

B-1A was 45 years ago, during the Carter Cluster.

After cancellation, that noble bird sat out in Palmdale until Reagan got into office and set Boeing to work on the B-1B aka The BONE.

Only A models left are in museums or the Boneyard. (-1 is at Wright-Patterson, -2 crashed during Flight Test, -3 is in a museum at Denver and -4 got stress-tested into pieces in '73 or so)

I still stand tall when a BONE passes by during a training hop.

Might not be my airplane but it's damn well my airplane's offspring.

1,778 posted on 05/22/2020 7:53:23 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (This may be my last battle. I'll just have to make the most of it.)
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