To: contemplator
It’s when you fly low enough to see the antennas, masts etc.. Each ship has a unique combination of such things and is used to identify a vessel. You mean that is easier than the big "68" number painted on the tower...?
6 posted on
06/03/2008 5:59:05 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
I would assume they are practicing the maneuver, probably because they are required to every so often. You can’t necessarily see the big “68” when flying overhead, and numbers are easily forged. My question is why would a B-52 be doing this, it seems like a waste to use something that big when they could use something a lot smaller and faster.
14 posted on
06/03/2008 6:04:37 AM PDT by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: 2banana
LOL - that was tooooo easy!
15 posted on
06/03/2008 6:08:44 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: 2banana
You mean that is easier than the big "68" number painted on the tower...? Back in the day, the Soviets had the habit of repainting their ships with any old number whenever the whim took them
64 posted on
06/03/2008 7:43:21 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
(Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law)
To: 2banana
You mean that is easier than the big “68” number painted on the tower...?
Careful, that could be a trick.
74 posted on
06/04/2008 4:31:03 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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