Posted on 08/19/2011 2:49:09 AM PDT by equaviator
So in summary: B1 = badass.
The National Aviation Day (August 19)
Big can be counted on to show very patriotic photos on national holidays.
Always a cool looking plane. Too bad we don’t have a use for it anymore.
Did not realize that bing was inclined toward patriotism. I thought they were part of Microsoft and Gates doesn't strike me as anything other than a hardcore leftist. It's wonderful and refreshing to see American.
Thanks for posting.
Bones cycled a large number of sorties over both Iraq and Afcrapistan. I know more than a few guys who’s bacon was saved by a loitering B-1.
Awesome description and fitting.
The B-1B is the loudest military aircraft I’ve ever heard. For sheer badass (jet division), however, nothing beats an F-4 Phantom II. The two J-79s on a Rhino are almost as loud as the four F101s on the Bone, and it’s a different kind of sound. The B-1 sounds deeper, more powerful, like the strategic bomber it was designed to be. The Phantom has this unforgettable “I’m coming to kill your children” snarl to it...brute, raw power given form in metal.
B-1Bs tear the sky open...Phantoms just pummel it into submission.
Nothing, however, is like a Concorde. I worked next to Dulles Airport for a couple of years in the late ‘80s and got to hear Concorde take off four afternoons a week. The word “sound” barely fits. It’s more like “force of nature.” We were over a mile from the runway, with tree lines and a highway in between, and when the Concorde went to full afterburner, it was so loud in our parking garage that conversation was impossible. Five floors up, all our building’s windows rattled and buzzed. I never understood why there was all the controversy about the Concorde flying in and out of JFK in the 1970s until I heard it for the first time, and then I understood. It is unimaginably loud. Of course, to a gearhead like me, that’s a symphony. :)
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The premiere Fighter!
Thank you for your descriptions. I saw the assembly of the B1B but I've never seen it fly. In fact I have an original tape (VHS) of the test pilots. According to them, flying the BIB was better than flying a fighter. It is more maneuverable and reacted the same as a fighter.
Back to the F4...it is my understanding that Israel (back in the day) took delivery of several and then 'revamped' them with aluminum on certain areas of the craft.
In any case it is a testament of American ingenuity. These planes are bad-a**.
Shit-hot!
“Too bad we don’t have a use for it anymore.”
I say use them for taking out poppy fields in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
But are those F/A-18's sitting there behind the tankers? The tail fins look canted, like a Hornet's, not vertical, like an Eagle's. Maybe a Navy or Marine Reserve unit?
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