To: DTAD
Those old turboprops are still flying? Pretty amazing.
3 posted on
10/01/2006 11:31:47 PM PDT by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: kingu
Yea that is pretty amazing. They probably saw them about 400 miles out and figured they'd crash before they got anywhere near Alaska. The scrambled the jets most likely because they thought they were lost and needed to get their bearings from someone who has GPS in the cockpit.
4 posted on
10/02/2006 12:35:27 AM PDT by
farlander
(Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
To: kingu
Those old turboprops are still flying? Pretty amazing.
Even more amazing is that it was one of those TU-95 Bears that dropped the largest Soviet nuclear device (actually the largest nuclear device ever exploded) in 1961 (this month as a matter of fact) in the Arctic Sea, 50 megaton yield, the device was dubbed 'Tsar Bomba', i.e. "The Emperor of Bombs":
7 posted on
10/02/2006 1:25:58 AM PDT by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: kingu
"Those old turboprops are still flying? Pretty amazing." Are they as old as our B-52s? I think the B-52 might be older.
9 posted on
10/02/2006 3:42:31 AM PDT by
GBA
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