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To: Fitzcarraldo

It looks mostly to be a handful of Bears (propellars) on training missions, together with the occational Blackjack..


12 posted on 09/21/2007 5:27:42 PM PDT by Kurt_Hectic (Trust only what you see, not what you hear)
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To: Kurt_Hectic

Wonder it it’s possible to buy a Bear for posterity.

The Udvar-Hazy annex to the National Air & Space Museum is only about a third full.

Dunno how Pooty is keeping the old birds flying. They are of the same vintage as the B-52. They were turboprops because the soviets couldn’t make or steal a decent jet engine big enough for the job.

It wasn’t until the rollout of the Blackjack that they actually had a decent strategic bomber (just in time for the collapse of the empire).


14 posted on 09/21/2007 5:36:47 PM PDT by sinanju
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