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To: yoe
"I cannot verify the veracity of this..."
 
(from the video)
"On July 28, 1945, a B-52 bomber, lost in the fog, crashed into the 79th floor of The Empire State Building..."
 
 
 
 
Um...okay..
 
 

77 posted on 05/21/2006 9:16:23 AM PDT by wolficatZ (Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle -"You'll hang for this!")
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To: wolficatZ; yoe

A prop driven B-25, not a B-52. The B-25 is a 2 Engine medium bomber from WW 2, considerable smaller as well as carrying far less fuel then a modern Jet Liner. The fuel in a B-25 would also buring a less volitable fuel. The B-52 1st assigned to combat commands in 1961.
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http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-52.htm


A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962. Only the H model is still in the Air Force inventory and all are assigned to Air Combat Command. The first of 102 B-52H's was delivered to Strategic Air Command in May 1961. The H model can carry up to 20 air launched cruise missiles. In addition, it can carry the conventional cruise missile which was launched from B-52G models during Desert Storm.


87 posted on 05/21/2006 10:12:39 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Conservative, The simple fact about DC is this . "There is more work to do"...)
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