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You do not get B-52's up one minute apart when they take off -- doesn't happen!

Actually it can, depends on having them all loaded and ready when the "Baby Elephant Walk" starts. I've seen BUFFS and their -135 tankers taking off so close together that after the first plane or two, the rest are going on blind faith because they can't see anything for the smoke from the ones in front. Wouldn't happen today because neither the BUFFs nor the tankers smoke all that much. But in old days of water injected J-57s (on both types) it was quite a show. Today they'd probably space them out enough so that the next in line is turning onto the runway as the previous one lifts off, or clears the end of the runway, just in case something goes badly wrong on takeoff. The old Minimum Interval Takeoff was for Armaggedon, when you had to flush the birds before a submarine launched missle took out your base.

BTW, say hi to Roco for me. :)

WOOO-HOOO; Here we go!

Did you see the AAA going up over Baghdad at the crack of dawn (about 2145 EST)?

Shortly thereafter Ari Fleisher popped out to the podium, announced that the Liberation of Iraq had begun, that the President will speak to the Nation at 2215hrs, and promptly strode out without taking questions or furthur comment.

Perhaps those Buffs did take off from England loaded for bear; if so their CRUISE dawgies should be rolling in any time now, assuming that they were not launched until the deadline hour had passed! Didn't somebody post here that it would take the CRUISE a couple of hours to come in from the launching zone over the Mediteranian?

We should be finding out any time now!