Well, the Ma Deuce .50 Caliber MG is coming up on nearly a century in service. Sometimes, the engineers just hit their groove . . .
Not your father’s or even your grandfather’s Air Force but possibly their bird.
General Buck Turgidson approves 👍
“The dreaded seven-engine approach.”
Big Ugly Fat Fella?
LOL! That’s not the way I heard it!
Big Ugly Fat Fellow, is for dinner parties and when the preacher comes to town, ONLY!!
Proud former crazy American G.I., resident of U-Tapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield, Rayong Province, Thailand, 1971 - 1974!!
(LBFM’s forever, but that too, is not for dinner parties or preachers)
First real novel I ever read was Flight of the Old Dog. Like 1988 or 89 lol. I remember driving down hwy 99 by Castle AFB watching them land.
I’ll say it: TTIWWOP!
I was maybe 12...
Used to pass to the southeast of Carswell AFB on my weekly run from Arlington to Burleson to see my high school girlfriend. Every so often the SAC B52s would pass over my VW low and slow with the engines screaming. Never failed to scare the heck out of me, thinking my car was coming apart.
I thought this was an article about Jerry Nadler
Fella? Yeah... Not so much. What it was really called did start with the letter “F” though.
And with that we have not outright won a war sense WWII.
Korea - stalemate
Vietnam - compromise
Granada and Panama were just simple policing actions
Iraq - still there and never left like Bammy wants you to believe. 18+ years and running
Afghanastan - still there and it has been 20 years
So you can have new equipment, old equipment even the best equipment but you never win wars until you devastate the general populace to the point they turn against their government. You know like what is happening in this country. The enemy comes from within. That is how to win.
Don’t ignore the KC-135 platform, the 707 from the 50’s. Or the C-130 still coming out the door two per month after more than 65 years.
B-52 bomb runs. The first one shows an island but it was originally a continent but has been blown to bits by B-52’s over the years....
https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/air-strikes/3-awesome-bombing-runs/5049203781001
B-52 is BEAUTIFUL❣