[Blueflag]

I got busted on the double F controversy this morning. For years I referred to B-52s as BUFFs, for Big Ugly Fat F*ckers. Now today, I was admonished to use just ONE F, because the B-52 is not fat.

Are you an ex BUF/BUFF crew member? Are others on line who can resolve this boiling controversy?

[wolfoblitz]

never a crew member here -- USAFA Class of 1980 for two years, left due to loss of PQ . . . . . crawled over BUFF's on occasion though -- never, ever heard an Air Force SAC officer refer to them as anything but BUFF's . . . . .

[petuniasevan]

We at Barksdale considered the "BUF/BUFF" terminology to be embarrassingly "political" in usage. Only the Wing King and his assorted desk jockeys EVER used the term. Never the flight crews or us maintenance crew.

[Billthedrill]

Are you an ex BUF/BUFF crew member?

No - I'm an ex-Navy type who, er, spoke to these fellows on occasion from Point Yankee. Once upon a time, long, long ago...and they are anything but "fat" - overhead they look like a pencil attached to a boomerang. Underneath is a nice place to be at an airbase and living hell in a target zone.

[DuncanWaring]

Are others on line who can resolve this boiling controversy?

This probably won't resolve the controversy, but in my day the B-52s were "BUF".

A "BUFF" was a "Big Ugly Friendly Fellow", Jolly Green Giant (CH-47?).