B-52 Flyby of USS Ranger This picture is real because I witnessed this flyby personally. This picture was taken in the spring of 1990 as we started our deployment to the Persian Gulf. I was up in the "tower" with the air boss as the Viking squadron rep for the launch/recovery and these Buff drivers (2 of them) called that they were at 8 miles for a flyby. They had been 'orange air' for a big war - at - sea exercise we were doing When they called 5 miles the boss said "we don't see you" and we heard...