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09-25-2006, 06:53 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2006
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| need help....anyone? hello all I'm in college and was givin a assignment that tells me to write an essay on the B-52, but i cant find any pictures and don't even know if it was made. can someone tell me if it was made and were i might find it. |
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09-25-2006, 07:04 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | Here you go: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Boeing: Integrated Defense Systems - B-52 Stratofortress, B-52 Stratofortress Home Boeing: History -- Products - Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Aviation Photos: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress B-52 Stratofortress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia B-52 Stratofortress - United States Nuclear Forces B-52 Stratofortress Association The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Should be something for you there...
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09-26-2006, 12:45 PM
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| dude you can't have looked very hard it's one of the greatest, longest serving aircraft of all time!
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09-26-2006, 03:01 PM
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| "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Yeah, all those are from the first page of Google...
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09-26-2006, 04:35 PM
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| aka Dickcheese   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Any teacher/professor that asks for a write up on the B-52 better be prepared to give the liberal response somewhere in the essay that it is "one of the most destructive airwar devices ever devised by mankind and is responsible for killing...". I'm always leary about profs asking about war machines. They tend to want a "war is bad", "US kills innocents" type of response. Be careful.
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09-26-2006, 05:14 PM
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| you could just miss the point comletely and piss him off by giving an in depth and detailed technical report on the B-52, ignoring and political or social aspects of the aircraft 
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09-26-2006, 06:18 PM
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That should piss off the liberal instructor...... we were killing jungle animals!!!
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09-26-2006, 08:53 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| ...oh Lordy... 
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09-27-2006, 06:45 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, NC
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| Hey now, the guy could be a retired marine, soldier, etc. We had several old servicemen at my school, even some at my high school. Although the left side of the spectrum is way more common in education.
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09-27-2006, 08:46 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| mkloby, your last sentence is unfortunately true. Their mantra whether taught or just inherent is to love the PETA save the whales feminist pro-choice tax the dead no inheritance no gun rights Bush is Satan incarnate force people into Tokyo subway system ovo-lacto vegetarian spotted owl tree huggers. But I don't have an opinion and welcome others thoughts.
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09-28-2006, 05:26 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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|    I just cant believe that someone had never heard of the B-52 before!? I dont know how anyone who does not know anything about aircraft has not even heard of the Buff!?
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10-03-2006, 01:26 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: shoreham, sussex, uk
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| the b52? specification: -accomodation pilot, co-pilot, tail gunner, bomber/navigator, ECM operator, radeo operator -dimentions length: 157 ft 7 in. wingspan:185ft 0in. height: 48 ft 3in -weights empty: 193,000 lb max: 450,000 lb -performance max speed: 630 mph range: 6200 miles powerplant:eight pratt & whitney J57-43ws Output: 110,000 lb st -arment four browning 0.50-in machine guns (later 20 mm cannon) in remote-controlled tail turret; 70,000-lb of bombs split between bomb-bay and two underwing hardpoints |
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10-03-2006, 01:43 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Amazing though how someone has never heard of it, huh?
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10-03-2006, 01:54 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Yes, amazing. What is more amazing is someone literate enough to post, but cannot do an internet search?
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10-03-2006, 02:05 PM
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| "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Everyone has their limits when it comes to the internet... He hasn't come back yet anyway so we shall see.
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